Word: belonged
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Citizens would do better to follow the example of the 75,000 southern Floridians who belong to Citizens Crime Watch (C.C.W.), a nonprofit neighborhood corporation that works closely with local police departments. When a C.C.W. member spots a crime in progress, he telephones the police as well as his block captain and two other volunteers. Each of those three calls another three members, and so on until all the volunteers in the neighborhood are notified. Armed with pencils and notebooks instead of .38s, the crime watchers jot down details of the crime and suspects before the police arrive. Local authorities...
...wants to graduate from Berkeley, though, because of its prestige. But redirected Berkeley Applicant Emily Buchbinder, 18 plans to stay at Santa Cruz, because, she believes, it has a better program in her major, politics. "I'm definitely glad I came here," she says. "I feel I belong, and I don't think I would have felt that way if I had gone to Berkeley...
...change the course we've been on in which Washington was seen as the answer to all the problems. I want to restore the balance between the different levels of government that has been so distorted in these recent decades. I would like to restore functions that properly belong at different levels of government to those levels; and restore also the taxing authority that has been preempted, turn much of it back to local government and state government...
...Cabral puts it this way: "In order to fulfull the role in the national liberation struggle, the revolutionary petty bourgeoisie must be capable of committing suicide as a class in order to be reborn as revolutionary workers, completely identified with the deepest aspirations of the people to which they belong." (Revolution in Guinea...
...President really does not have the kind of clout with the Congress that he had 30 years ago, even in matters that affect national security. There is not the kind of teamwork that existed in the '50s, even if the President and a majority of the Congress belong to the same party...