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...simile "great retaining wall" was used throughout the campaign as the wall that permanently separates the extreme right, which advocates statehood, from the extreme left, which favors independence from the U.S. By avoiding a confrontation between the extremes, the commonwealth retaining wall will serve to prevent conflict...
...Since the Commonwealth has effectively put the companies out of business, the major implications of the outcome of our suit will be on a national level." Ziebarth said...
Many of the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania remain unchanged from colonial times, and when Liberal Democratic Governor Milton Shapp was elected two years ago, he promised sweeping reform. He reckoned without the strength of a revitalized conservative coalition in the state legislature, consisting of more than 100 Roman Catholics in both houses, mostly from urban and suburban areas, aided by like-minded rural legislators. Working together, the two groups represent a formidable constituency: Pennsylvania has four million Catholic residents and the highest rural population in the nation. The Governor also reckoned without State Representative Martin P. Mullen...
...bill also suggests that the proposed commission form a population policy "based on the state's economic and natural resources and safeguarding the rights and needs of traditionally disenfranchised groups in the commonwealth...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts donated the land, which presently contains the Bennett-Elliot Metropolitan Transit Authority's (MBTA) stock yards...