Word: civic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), a civic watchdog group with four members on the City Council support rent control, has not endorsed the CTU and is not a member of the Coalition...
Meanwhile Dr. Nthato Motlana, chairman of the Soweto Civic Association, made one last attempt to persuade the police to allow a memorial service in St. Paul's. When that request was denied, Motlana entered the church and pleaded with 300 people seated in the pews, "Let's win freedom on our own terms." Some heeded the various warnings and went home. Others headed for Jabavu Stadium, where thousands had been waiting hours to participate in the memorial service. Their patience was rewarded with bursts of tear...
...museum director and chairman of the board in the Western world had simultaneously agreed that a Moore work was the only possible solution to the problem of how to relieve the hardness and social tension of new post-Bauhaus buildings with an organic metaphor, how to dress up a civic space without commemorating anything in particular. At the same time, people in the street found that his work spoke to them in a way that some dull tangle of official I beams could...
Honda's obsession with quality is famed. Auto-industry experts point to the company's knack for designing compact, reliable engines, a legacy of its long experience with motorcycles. Honda quickly corrected a few problems on its early auto models, notably rust-prone bumpers and fenders on early Civics, and brakes that tended to fade on the first Accords. J. David Power, head of the California consulting firm that bears his name, lauds Honda's attention to owners' needs in designing its cars. He recalls one Honda design team that spent several days at a California shopping mall interviewing drivers...
...violence in Soweto left blacks more embittered than ever. Black leaders maintained that the number of deaths was closer to 30 than the 20 the government claimed and called for the resignation of the township council. Said the Rev. Frank Chikane, a Sowetan civic leader: "We are appalled by this cold-blooded massacre of our people. This was one of the darkest days in our history." The South African Council of Churches criticized the Soweto councilors for their eviction policy, pointing out that the rent issue had become a "political time bomb" that could "explode in townships throughout South Africa...