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...governor and Stovall's have been a strong mark in Collins favor. Good exercise of power tends to blur the memory of the perceived bad exercise of power. Anyone who wondered whether a woman could handle the job of Governor of Kentucky could be shown that in fact the commonwealth has had a woman governor for 492 days...

Author: By John S. Gardner, | Title: Southern Belles | 10/1/1983 | See Source »

BOUNCERS AND BARTENDERS in the Commonwealth may have to weed a lot more minors from majors this year, as the legislature seems intent on raising the drinking age to 21. With the probable backing of the legislative and executive leadership, and a lack of any explicit opposition, the date the law goes into effect appears all that is uncertain about the proposal. That is unfortunate, because boosting the drinking age by one year would be not only unfair but ineffective in its ostensible purpose--preventing traffic deaths. It would simply be a gratuitous slap at the state's young adults...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Year Too Many | 9/29/1983 | See Source »

Limbo pointed to the high-tech industry along Route 128, which has provided an economic stimulus to the Commonwealth, as an example of how educational institutions can fuel resources beneficial to the whole state...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: State Aid Weighed for College Cities | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

...Paradise Theater 96/ Commonwealth Ave., Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT is to be DONE? | 8/12/1983 | See Source »

...protected legal proceedings. It is now a full month since the Supreme Court put the law into effect and no policy has been announced. One other example is investment ethics. While President Bok has long resisted demands for the injection of effective morality into the University's portfolio the Commonwealth of Massachusetts late last year voted to divest its pension fund from companies doing business in South Africa...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: A Day For King | 8/9/1983 | See Source »

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