Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis, who has governed the Commonwealth during a period of tremendous economic growth, made his remarks at a symposium entitled "The Future of Our Federal System," held at the Law School. The symposium was chaired by Byrne Professor of Law Richard T. Stewart and attended by Sen. William Roth (R-Del.) and William T. Coleman, a Washington lawyer who served as Secretary of Transportation during President Ford's Administration...
Dukakis, who has governed the Commonwealth during a period of tremendous economic growth, made his remarks at a symposium entitled "The Future of Our Federal System," held at the Law School. The symposium was chaired by Byrne Professor of Law Richard T. Stewart and attended by Sen. William Roth (R-Del.) and William T. Coleman, a Washington lawyer who served as Secretary of Transportation during President Ford's Administration...
...mindand body. Charles earned the lead role in aproduction of Shakespeare's Macbeth and twoyears in a row won the award for physical fitnesswhich his father had inspired. After spending ayear abroad in Australia (Charles was also thefirst member of the royal family to attend aschool in the Commonwealth), Charles was chosen"Guardian" of the school, a high honor for seniorboys...
Next day the group got down to hard work. Thatcher repeated her view that sanctions were "immoral" and impractical. But then, in the interests of Commonwealth solidarity, she offered her modest concessions. Though her proposals did not amount to much, and indeed were not supposed to, they did represent a policy change of sorts. Thatcher balked at any tougher measures, like a ban on air links with South Africa; the London-Johannesburg route is a highly lucrative one for government-owned British Airways. When she turned down Hawke on a boycott of South African farm products, the Australian sputtered...
...room at 9 p.m. to put the finishing touches on their communique. All but Thatcher stated their support for the stronger package of sanctions and expressed "concern and regret" that Britain had not agreed. At a midnight press conference, Thatcher called the summit result "reasonable for all concerned." Her Commonwealth colleagues were less effusive. Said Gandhi: "It's not the Commonwealth that loses; Britain loses. It is not leading anymore." Pindling likened Thatcher's stance to that of a would-be rescuer who waits for the victim to drown before throwing a lifeline. Mugabe professed himself "utterly dismayed." Nonetheless, Thatcher...