Word: commonwealthers
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...ability to put everyone at ease and has a phenomenal memory for places and people. The Duke of Edinburgh is still a ball of energy and, yes, thankfully, still positively flirtatious - though not inappropriately. They have given a lifetime of service not only to Britain and the Commonwealth but also to the whole world by their example of steadfastness, courage and sense of family and loyalty. We should cherish them. Christine Richard Edinburgh Having grown accustomed to your derogatory, ill-informed and prejudiced articles on the royal family, usually relegated to the People page, I was surprised by the balance...
Sources: AP; Chicago Tribune; Commonwealth Fund; U.S. Census Bureau; Lancet (2); AP; Oregon Department of Human Services...
...carbon emissions thus far is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), comprised of eight Northeastern states who agreed to stabilize emissions at current levels by 2015 and reduce them by 10 percent by 2020. Massachusetts was set to join RGGI in 2005, but Gov. Mitt W. Romney pulled the Commonwealth from the pact late last year. Browner said several times that she favors a “cap-and-trade” proposal like RGGI under which each industrial facility would be allocated a certain number of “emission credits,” with the total number...
...Andrei Gromyko, the interview is brief and formal. It may be a recently appointed bishop eager to discuss the problems of his new see, and Elizabeth as head of the church must be interested and informed. It may be a visiting Governor General from one of the Commonwealth nations, come for luncheon with his lady. Gourmet or no, the guest must face the fact that Elizabeth the Queen likes short meals and plain, wholesome British fare. After lunch (maximum: an hour and a quarter) come the public appearances-a ship to be launched, a hospital to be visited, an exhibition...
...hosts dinners for foreign leaders - and head of nation, a focus for British unity and identity, rewarder of excellence, a visible oasis of continuity in an accelerating world, even as Prime Ministers (she's had 10) come and go. A clutch of other symbolic roles - Head of the Commonwealth, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, chief of the armed forces - reinforce a peculiar kind of omnipresence in public life. In a media-soaked age, that is a fantastic asset...