Word: bono
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endorsement of large law firms and bar associations, volunteer projects are already operating nationwide to fill in for reduced full-time poverty law staffs. In Boston, 10% of the city's 7,500 lawyers have pledged to take up to five cases a year on a pro bono basis. But even participants note that such efforts do not replace legal services programs...
...synthesizer beginning "Tomorrow" off the new album whines with the timbre of an hautboy or other traditional reed instrument. With melodies evoking the charm of an unassuming folk tune, most of the album's songs center around a long gliding refrain of three or four notes, which lead singer Bono produces with an almost yodeling quality to his voice. In "Is that all?" Bono seems to be rejecting pat classification. "You think this song makes me angry...Is that all?" But the guitar played by the Edge sounds distinctly like the Clash riff from "Running," and the guitarist's name...
...welcome variety among the hits on BCN, but their weaknesses becomes apparent easily. The "formula" threatens to imprison U2 in a musical cul-de-sac. Though the melodies and intros alternate between tracks, the style remains immutable. After a while The Edge seems to repeat the same riffs, and Bono seems to sing nothing but "faaaalling" and "reeejoice...
...poor people. Over 97 per cent of legal services funds are used for the support and direct provision of services to the poor. Contrary to the popular belief of the conservatives, the advice, counseling, referrals, representation and community education currently provided by legal services cannot be replaced by pro bono work of the private sector, regardless of good intentions...
...user fees are not responding wisely or with complete awareness to the implications of the situation. Their moves for radical changes in the fiscal support base of public library service is appalling. almost unbelievable, in fact. Libraries are public institutions and were established for the public good (pro bono publico). It is important, indeed essential, to understand it and know how to handle its arugments...