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• n  the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
• n  a politically organized body of people under a single government
• n  a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
• n  a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• state
• nation
• country
• land
• res publica
• body politic
• democracy
• republic

News & Articles

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• CommonWealth REIT Comments on ISS Report
  CommonWealth REIT today issued the following statement in response to a recent report from Institutional Shareholder Services regarding the purported written co
  June 14, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Commonwealth Bnk Aus UK Regulatory Announcement: FRN Variable Rate Fix
  LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA Issue of EUR 750,000,000 Floating Rate Notes due 17 September 2015 Series 5314 Tranche 1 MTN ISSUE NAME. Our Ref. MF9334 ISIN Code. XS0828754332 INTEREST AMT PER DENOM. CURRENCY CODE. EUR DAY BASIS. Actual/360 (A004) NUM OF DAYS. 92 INTEREST RATE. 0.609 PCT VALUE DATE. 17/09/2013 INTEREST PERIOD. 17/06/2013 TO 17/09/2013 EUR 100,000.00 IS ...
  June 14, 2013 - Business Wire
• Commonwealth Club elects 2013 officers, executive committee members
  The Commonwealth Club of Cincinnati has elected new officers and executive committee members for 2013-14.
  June 14, 2013 - The Cincinnati Enquirer

Quotes

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• John McCain in CNN
  My friends, the commonwealth is Virginia is a battleground state,McCain told the audience, his largest of the campaign so far. "We must win it and we will win it with your support."
• Deval Patrick in The Associated Press
  What I've said,Patrick said, "is, if we do this, we should do it in a way that's consistent with the character of the Commonwealth and some choices that we have made about that character."
• Steve Beshear in The Associated Press
  I will continue to aggressively lobby Kentucky's congressional delegation to make sure they understand the critical need the commonwealth has for both the Medicaid extension and unemployment assistance extension,Beshear said in a statement.