Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student bodies anywhere in the U.S. I think a man should earn his way out of prison by education. If he wants to go to night school and learn more and learn faster, then his time should be cut down. I think there is a good correlation between good citizenship (if that is the antithesis of criminality) and education. I know there are a number of extreme opposite examples: Bill Sands, Caryl Chessman (both of whom I represented) and others who had high IQs and became criminals. But the usual criminal is part of an ethnic minority, economically distressed...
...programs sounded pretty much like a philosophy of total altruism and good citizenship--a kind of tutoring service for policymakers and a chance for freshmen midwestern senators and young eastern seaboard congressmen to dig into off-shore drilling and farm price support case studies for a small admission...
...fate of the statues aptly symbolizes the plight of the remaining whites, who have been given 90 days to decide whether to stay and accept Mozambican citizenship or get out. In one residential area of the capital, fully half the houses once occupied by whites stand empty; remaining neighbors dutifully switch on lights in unoccupied homes every night to discourage looters. One apartment in every three in white areas is for rent or for sale, but there are no takers. Before the coup in Lisbon 15 months ago, there were 220,000 whites in Mozambique, including 80,000 troops; today...
...been here 20 or 30 years and this was their first opportunity to learn the language." Weeknight classes were added, along with a child care program to free mothers to attend Saturday afternoon classes, and the curriculum has expanded to include Mandarin Chinese, driver's education, and a citizenship course to prepare the students for naturalization...
Buttinger, an Austrian refugee who received American citizenship in 1943, said he had originally planned to give the collection to New York University, but the library there was unable to find space for it. He said he decided to give the books to Harvard when Fair bank asked his advice on how to build up the college's Vietnamese library