Word: civic
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...palm trees, sleek benches designed in Valencia, Spain, and an artificial river lit neon blue. Working through the night, workers built the place in three months. Construction unions, Saakashvili joked, would come to Georgia only "when everything is already built." One of the renovated plazas will host a giant civic New Year's Eve concert featuring Julio Iglesias, whom Saakashvili decided to hire for just over $1 million. While going over blueprints with his Spanish architects, Saakashvili told me he likes buildings that are "original, crazy and brave." He said Batumi could be "the next Dubai." He then produced...
...Thanksgiving is a central part of the civic religion [in America]; a feast of almost political proportions, whereas Canadian Thanksgiving is a more modest family affair,” said European Studies Professor Peter A. Hall...
...very idea, though, that the collection of NFL owners is some kind of football Kiwanis Club is crazy in the first place. Civic good? NFL owners have a dedicated interest in going wherever civic leaders are good enough to shower them with money. Remember the Irsays, who owned the Baltimore Colts? They slunk out of Baltimore in the middle of the night for the riches of Indianapolis. Now Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts, is saying he couldn't even think of voting for Limbaugh. The man has his standards. And let's not forget former Cleveland Browns owner...
Finally, we could regard voting as a civic duty in recognition of the past and ongoing sacrifices made by men and women in the name of democracy. The struggle for universal suffrage has been both long and turbulent. It began in 1775 with the War of Independence and it continues to this very day. In many parts of the world, people are still denied the right to vote on the basis of gender and race...
...Spanish seized Manila from its Muslim rulers in the 16th century and set it up as their colonial seat in Asia. The city was a flourishing, elegant entrepôt for centuries, but in recent times civic planning has been more haphazard as the population has boomed. Lambert Ramirez, executive director of the National Institute for Policy Studies, a Manila-based think tank, says much of the blame for poor urban management ought to be leveled at the government. "There's no coordinated policy for cleaning up garbage. There's no political will to get even simple things done...