Word: civic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offers several other sessions including the Seminar for Superintendents, Computer Technology in the Special Needs Curriculum, Institute on Thinking: Critical and Creative, the Institute on Writing, Reading and Civic Education, the Management Development Program and the newly-created Institute on Multicultural Education...
...Emma Gresham, 64, decided to run for mayor to bring progress to the sleepy Georgia town. Local whites, fearing that black control might result in higher taxes, went to court to block the election, but Gresham prevailed. Now in her second one-year term, Gresham has embarked on such civic projects as installing streetlights and a beautification campaign...
...Cambridge is by no means a one-party town. For more than 40 years, the City Council has been split down the middle between candidates backed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and those running as Independents...
...prominence -- and then dissociate himself from their tactics. Last week the President acknowledged that the attack on Tom Foley was "disgusting . . . against everything I have tried to stand for in political life." Yet, though Atwater initially defended the Foley smear, Bush stood up for him. Atwater's fouling the civic atmosphere with vicious misinformation is bad enough; compounding that with White House hypocrisy is too much. If Bush really wants to prove himself a political environmentalist in search of a kinder, gentler America, he should sack Atwater...
...police to detain suspected looters without charging them. The President, following the lead of provincial leaders, also ordered the creation of hundreds of soup kitchens and the free distribution of food. Some measure of order was restored after four days, but many citizens were calling for Alfonsin, whose Radical Civic Union party was convincingly defeated by Peronist Carlos Saul Menem in May 14 elections, to step down before his term ends on Dec. 10. When the two men met last week, however, they apparently agreed that an early transition would suit neither one. Alfonsin wants a normal, democratic transfer...