Word: commonwealth
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...other theaters which go out of their way to show unusual movies are the Nickelodeon in Boston (600 Commonwealth Ave.) and Coolidge Corner in Brookline (290 Harvard St.), both on modeled and expanded, and it offers a good selection of foreign, offbeat, underground, and gay films. The Coolidge Corner is a little more mainstream, tending towards interesting revivals...
Owning stock in Reuters, the London-based international news wire, used to be considered less an asset than a potential liability for the British and Commonwealth newspapers that hold most of the shares: the company sometimes lost money and paid no dividend for more than 40 years. Proprietors of defunct journals treated their residual interest in Reuters as worthless, omitting mention of the stock in their wills. Sellers of papers regarded their percentage of Reuters as at most an incidental value. This week, however, Reuters for the first time will offer shares to the public, and the once disgruntled owners...
...financial wire's success has permitted Reuters to beef up its news operations. The editorial budget has grown 65% in the past two years. The agency nowadays provides complete and thoughtful coverage, especially from the Middle East, Africa and British and Commonwealth countries. The staff of 612 reporters and editors in London and at 92 bureaus assembles a daily menu of about 60,000 words in English, plus services in French, German, Spanish and Arabic. Next year Reuters will launch a photo service. Among the agency's recent exclusives: the first bulletin of the death of Soviet Leader...
...thousands of stubby little barrage balloons, tugging at their cables above every spot that might offer a target to low-flying German planes, kept the island from sinking into the sea under the weight of men and machines massing for Dday. London was a kaleidoscope of uniforms: British, Commonwealth, French, Norwegian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, Polish and, of course, American. So many U.S. officers worked around Grosvenor Square that G.I.s walking through the area kept their arms raised in semipermanent salute. In the southern counties, near the coast from which the armada would sail, military convoys clogged the crooked lanes...
...bill has drawn fire from a coalition of critics including evangelicals who say it would loosen the commonwealth's sexual mores and property owners who say the measure would infringe on their rights...