Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-year rule is the last area of the Commonwealth's official influence in Harvard affairs...
Britain wanted, he said, swift negotiations relating only to "the small number of really important issues," such as the special problems of New Zealand trade, Commonwealth sugar and British capital movements. Of the Common Market's common agricultural policy, which, if applied in Britain, could raise food prices as much as 10%, Wilson quietly acknowledged: "We must come to terms with it." Above all, Wilson showed a determination that reflected support from both parties, from British business and from most of the country* - the kind of national approval that was lacking four years ago, in large part because...
...protest march began at the Public Garden at the corner of Arlington and Boylston Streets. The demonstrators marched up Arlington St., and made a left on Commonwealth Ave. to St. James Ave., where they congregated in front of the Park Square Building, which houses the Greek consulate...
...execution, commutations, and pardons can be given only with the consent of the eight-member Council. Unfortunately this year the governor is an ambitious, calculating Republican vice Presidential candidate and the majority of the Council are stern, stolid, calculating Democrats. The governor and councillors are will aware that the Commonwealth's system of shared responsibility is little known or understood and that in the eyes of the nation any executions would be the fault of vice-presidential candidate Volpe. The prospect of the Democratic councillor's letting a man die in hopes of thwarting Governor Volpe's ambitions in grizzly...
...signed a petition calling for Sanchez's resignation, but he insisted that he would serve out his term. It was still too early to assess what effect, if any, the scandal will have in July, when the voters must decide whether they want their island to remain a commonwealth, become the 51st U.S. state or try independent nationhood. Most observers were still predicting that the commonwealth plan, backed by Sanchez, would...