Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Monckton report flatly urges that the federation's present central structure be wiped away. In its place would be a loose association of three semi-autonomous territories-Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The central government would retain control only of foreign policy, defense, and broad economic matters. The new territories would have power to levy taxes of their...
...Connor motorcade sirened down Mass. Ave. from Central Square and came to a halt at the modest O'Connor headquarters at the Poets' Theatre on Palmer St. The mayor took one look at the shabby office and cracked, "We Democrats in Massachusetts have a small budget...
...this year, with an advance guard of Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey and twelve other members of the National Academy of Sciences. Up the coast is the 1,000-acre Orange County site, donated by the vast Irvine Ranch. Somewhere south of San Francisco in the state's North Central area, another site must be acquired...
Arkansas is a south central state of the United States, officially designated by its general assembly as the "Land of Opportunity...
...seemed to be high-decibel evangelism and opposition to the Pope, Darwin, smoking, dancing and drinking. Between the enactment of Prohibition and the 1928 defeat of Al Smith, Southern Baptism went through some of its rowdiest moments. Some memorably colorful but questionable leaders appeared -and in a denomination without central authority, where each church has complete local autonomy, no one could say whether or not they spoke for Southern Baptism. There was, for instance, J. Frank Norris, a Fort Worth Baptist preacher ("the Texas tornado"), who killed a political foe by shooting him four times in the belly, was acquitted...