Word: commonwealth
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...though the last of the old breweries in Vermont went out in the 1890s, as far as anyone knows. There is one brewery in New Hampshire, the big, mass-market Anheuser-Busch operation in Merrimack. And only one very small outfit in Massachusetts, an enterprising Boston pub called the Commonwealth Brewing Co. Ltd., which turns out a variety of sturdy ales and porters for consumption on the premises. It is true that the somewhat misleadingly named Boston Beer Co. sells Samuel Adams, a good, chewy boutique lager that yuppies buy for nearly $7 a six-pack on payday...
Several organizations protested the city's low selling price in its 1986 sale of the Commonwealth Armory to BU. The university plans to construct about 1000 beds of student housing on the armory site...
Most community groups are satisfied with the present agreement because a majority of the new housing, including the proposed Commonwealth Armory dormitory, will be within the boundaries of the campus, said Henry Ragin, one of the task force's three chairmen and president of the Brighton-Allston Improvement Association...
According to the approved plan, in addition to building on the armory site, the university will built a dormitory at 1019 Commonwealth Ave. and convert one of its office buildings, Rich Hall, into student quarters...
...addition to giving Boston $100 million, Congress will give nearly $620 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, part of which will be allocated to Boston through special grants...