Word: civic
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...Army commandos. The ISAF work alongside a steadily growing Afghan National Army unit whose base sits beside Camp Holland. As well as ferreting out and fighting the Taliban, the coalition forces - which also include U.S. soldiers serving under Operation Enduring Freedom - train local soldiers and police and undertake civic improvement projects...
...perceived airbrushing of the less heroic elements of the Titanic story that has left some locals unconvinced. For them, the Titanic Quarter is as much a developers' dream as a civic endeavor. "The Titanic is of such importance to the city and to Western culture," says Belfast-born Bill Neill, Professor of Spatial Planning at Aberdeen University, "but this vapid project represents a whitewashed history. [The developers] are inventing a past that never existed...
Sarah Holewinski, executive director for the Washington-based Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict (CIVIC), a group lobbying for fair and equal treatment for families of bystanders killed in conflict by the U.S. military says: "The military has a big interest in getting it right. Right now, we see a good effort but not good implementation. Make sure payments are fair, make sure they're uniform from one family to another, make sure they're immediate following the bombs and bullets and make sure this is true whenever U.S. troops head into combat - that's how you properly dignify deaths...
South Carolina, where a Confederate battle flag still flies on the capitol grounds off Gervais Street and where dying but persistent de facto segregation still divides church life and civic organizations, will be a test of just how deeply the skirmish has resonated with voters. Sixty years after South Carolina governor (later Senator) Strom Thurmond created the Dixiecrats, rupturing a Democratic Party he found insufficiently racist, the state is poised to remind Americans how far they have come--or how much further they still have...
...asked to comment upon the MFA's statement threatening "coercive" actions to have the British Council's regional offices closed, just shrugged: "No need posting a cop at the gate to turn people away. A phone call to those Russians who cooperate with the British Council, appealing to their civic duty, will suffice...