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The British Commonwealth resisted abandoning their traditional measures, but in the early 1970s--under the slogan "Metric: 10 times better"--they, too, metricated.
In 1944 Saskatchewan elected the first socialist government in North America — the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)
Like a handful of emeralds scattered across blue velvet, the verdant islands of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas stretch across 100,000 sq miles (259,000 sq km) of the Atlantic Ocean.
With the passage of the Single Audit Act in 1984, the Commonwealth of Virginia had to produce and have audited Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR) for the first time.
The campaign has spread throughout the Commonwealth of Nations ("Crusade for Plain English Reaches Ghana," announced a recent cover story of the organization's magazine) and has opened a U.S. office in Miami.