Word: civic
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...eliminated, and ballots are again redistributed. Cambridge is the only city in the country that uses this electoral system.“Marjorie, though she’s won five elections now, has never reached the [10 percent] quota,” said Robert Winters, editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal, an instructor at the Extension School, and a one-time council candidate.“She’s always relied upon having second and third—whatever—preferences from other candidates,” he said. “It’s hard...
...country ... He is my President, and we must have him succeed. If he fails, we all fail." Of the Democratic Party: "I don't know personally a single Democrat who is a dope-smoking hippie that wants to turn us into Soviet Russia." Of the civic duty to trust: "We've got to pull together, because we are facing dark, dark times. I don't trust a single weasel in Washington. I don't care what party they're from. But unless we trust each other, we're not going to make...
...Vidim, head of the lower house defense committee and a lawmaker for Topolanek's Civic Democrats, said the removal of the defense system was a blow to Czech interests. "The first feeling is a great disappointment and disgust over Mr. Obama's cowardice," Vidim said, according to the website of the daily Lidove Noviny. "He performs endless concessions, for example towards Russia. I consider it a betrayal of allies." (Read a Joe Klein blog post on the scrapping of antimissile defenses...
...It’s easy to point to Harvard and say give more land, but maybe the Community Builders should try to develop this land in a different way,” says Paul Berkeley, president of the Allston Civic Association. “There’s no one person that holds...
...ironically enough, a condemnation of the president for speaking about personal and civic responsibility to the nation’s public schools shows that not only do many Americans have problems with messages of responsibility from across the aisle, but also that the president’s message from a begotten time has fallen on many deaf ears...