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...referendum says "there shall be no further generation of electric power by commerical nuclear power plants in the Commonwealth by means which result in the production of nuclear waste." Although the question covers all nuclear plants, the only ones that exist now are obsolete and dangerous; Question 4 protects the people of Massachusetts from this threat. If and when new technology is devised to ensure the safety of nuclear power generation, the citizens can consider overturning this referendum; until then, this is the safest...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts Pension Fund said yesterday it does not want its shares in an investment partnership, of which Harvard is a member, used in the hostile takeover of RJR Nabisco...
...Lelyveld disagreed that investors could notrefuse to have their funds used for a specifictakeover. He said that the Commonwealth "has theright to elect not to participate in a given deal.It's not a matter of withdrawing money...
...even Chamberlain had to admit his error, when France had fallen and the new Prime Minister, Churchill, addressed his imperiled country with an eloquence that was an army in itself. "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: 'This was their finest hour...
Nickelodeon, 606 Commonwealth...