Word: civic
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...what really matters is that a good proposal is getting off the ground. Sept. 11 unleashed a flood of civic emotions, as each of us was forced to consider whether we would have been brave enough to stay behind to help an injured colleague. The first chance to turn the Selfish Generation into something more like the Greatest Generation was missed last fall when Bush urged us to return to normality--at the mall, the cineplex and Disneyland. With the unveiling of Freedom Corps, the President has a second chance to tap that well of compassion and finally get last...
...fears, however, were overblown. For the most part, Europeans greeted the launch with good humor and even civic-mindedness. The debut of more than 10 billion new bank notes, legal tender from Lisbon to Helsinki and from Dublin to Athens, has given 300 million Europeans their first true experience of union. (Britain, the most significant holdout, is keeping the pound for now.) An Austrian who stood in a long bank queue to get her first walletful of euros could go home and see Spaniards doing the same thing on TV. The much photographed lines outside some banks were strictly voluntary...
...most part, though, Europeans greeted the launch with good humor and even a measure of civic-mindedness. A national French bank tellers' strike scheduled for Jan. 2 - widely viewed even in union-friendly France as an opportunistic shakedown - fizzled out after almost everyone showed up for work. And those much-photographed queues outside some banks were strictly voluntary displays of euro- enthusiasm, since in most countries the old currencies are still good for at least another month. The Creditanstalt bank in Vienna opened for five hours on New Year's Day and found itself swamped with customers trading in their...
Sullivan’s win came through building a coalition with the three councillors affiliated with the city’s traditional progressive party, the Cambridge Civic Association...
Cenko says the group plans to use some of the funds to “implement a curriculum on civic engagement in the political process,” with hopes of taking Mission Hill students on a trip to Washington, D.C. over spring break...