Word: commonwealth
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Shannon's campaign stresses the nuclear power issue. "The opening of new plants is a crucial area for the next attorney general, and Shannon believes that the office must represent the interests of the Commonwealth," said Collins...
...dirtiest race in the Commonwealth this year is between State Treasurer Robert Q. Crane and Republican L. Joyce Hampers. While Hampers aggressively paints the 22-year incumbent as a good old boy from the days of the smoke-filled room and the well-greased palm, Crane has attacked the Republican's record during her tenure as State Revenue Commissioner under Governor Edward J. King...
...perform what he says is a small amount of consulting work each year. She charges that Crane's friendship with the president of Merkert Enterprises has led to conflicts of interest. She has also said he works for the broker's firm during office time, at the Commonwealth's expense...
Hampers claims she took the whole department from "a total shambles" to a viable agency. She said she authorized "the first tax fraud prosecutions in the history of the Commonwealth...
Shall the Commonwealth of Massachusetts urge the United States Congress to enact a national health program which: provides high quality, comprehensive, personal health care including preventive, curative and occupational health services; is universal in coverage, community controlled, rationally organized, equitably financed, with no out-of-pocket charges, is sensitive to the particular health needs of all, and is efficient in containing its cost; and whose yearly expenditure does not exceed the proportion of the Gross National Product spent on health care in the immediately preceding fiscal year...