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Because of the uncertainty of the funding level the Commonwealth will be able to provide to its cities, the Cambridge is attempting to streamline services and overhead bureaucracy, Healy wrote. He plans to examine services such as the fire department, health care financing and the library system...
...areas where they do the most paying. By contributing about 70% of all assistance pledged by the industrialized world to the new entities rising from the wreckage of the old Soviet Union, Germany has emerged as the point nation for managing the economic development of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The same holds for the rest of the old East bloc, where German business is overwhelmingly in front. "The more the East is emptied of Soviet power, the more it is being replaced by Germany's," observes French historian Georges Valance...
...side claiming the enclave as its own, began their skirmishing with hunting rifles. They have now graduated to modern weapons, including tanks, missiles and heavy artillery, turning their ethnic conflict into the bloodiest and most intractable of the many such conflicts bequeathed by the Soviet Union to the new Commonwealth of Independent States...
...vote comes on the heels of the defeat of a state House bill yesterday that proposed the abolition of rent control in the Commonwealth. Twenty-one states currently have legislation outlawing rent control...
Third, he said that each republic has extended a unique credit policy, further inhibiting cooperation between the members of the struggling Commonwealth of Independent States...