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...Prothrow-Stith was appointed as the first woman and youngest-ever Commissioner of Public Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...result of this movement, the state legislature, added a fifth option for governments within the Commonwealth. This option, which is the current governmental system in Cambridge, offers a package with proportional representation and professional city management that includes the council-elected mayorship...
...first was that he stay away from the victim. The second was that he stay away from Harvard altogether. The third is that he is not toleave the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [unless heappeals to the court to reverse its decision]," hesaid...
...Northern Marianas have a commonwealth agreement with the U.S., negotiated in 1975 to give the local population U.S. citizenship while retaining control over labor and immigration. This was intended to help the locals boost their own economy and keep out competitive immigrant labor. The opposite has happened: 90% of private-sector workers are aliens, while unemployment among locals has reached 14.2%. The labor market is so skewed that in 1995 the government had to issue a directive forbidding Saipan's welfare recipients to hire foreign workers as maids. And in establishing the commonwealth, the U.S. Congress certainly did not foresee...
...sugar price supports. And now that 60 legislators and staff members have gone to the Northern Mariana Islands, known for cheap immigrant labor for the garment industry as well as white sandy beaches, we haven't heard much lately about applying labor laws to any sweatshops that this U.S. commonwealth might harbor...