Word: commonwealthers
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...high of 300. A student petition for extended parietals hours to entertain women in the Houses met flat rejection by the Faculty Administrative Board the day before.1/19: Yale beats Harvard football, 21-7. A week later, the Medical School receives grant of million dollars in unrestricted finds from the Commonwealth Fund.12/1: Dunster wins the first inter-house debate as judges split on verdict. Sanitary engineers begin with an investigation today to determine the cause of a minor epidemic of intestinal disturbance.12/2: The union closes to freshman following a fire causing $15,000 in damages. The business school raises tuition...
...London-based Stakeholder Democracy Network, ruling-party politicians have armed local youths - many of them gang members - to ensure that votes go their way. Weapons flooded the region before the 2003 poll, which in many parts of the Delta was less an election than an armed contest. Commonwealth observers found that in the Rivers state and other areas there was "serious violence, intimidation and vote rigging." Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, one of the youth leaders armed by politicians, later turned on Nigeria's security forces and engaged them in gun battles in the streets of Port Harcourt. After Dokubo-Asari called...
...nagging worry surrounding Howard and Costello's fiscal pitch is not that the good times will one day end (they will). It's an unease that not enough is being done right now to improve the productivity and, hence, the living standards of future generations. The Commonwealth is debt-free; Howard and Costello have cut government debt with the relish one only sees in workaholic couples who are under the spell of their bank manager's mortgage repayment simulator. So what is a 10-year-old, extremely fortunate administration doing to underwrite a splendid future...
...economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The study, “Paying for College: The Rising Cost of Higher Education,” found that college related expenses have increased by 7 percent since the 1992-1993 academic year. Co-sponsored by Massachusetts Institute for New Commonwealth (MassINC) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the study also noted that families are paying more for public colleges, from 18% of their income in 1992-1993 to 21 percent in 2003-2004. Ian A. Bowles ’87, President and CEO of MassINC, says that his company decided...
...massive I-93 superstructure that snakes its way through what was once the city’s prime real estate. There is an urgent need for expanded public transit in this area, but the Romney administration has so far offered only manipulative lip service and obfuscation. Last May, the Commonwealth loudly announced that it was going to begin the project, only to quietly indicate seven months later that there would be a three-year delay before any construction began. And it’s not just Somerville that is being shortchanged by Romney’s disregard for the Commonwealth?...