Word: civics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Base near Omaha, and within the fenced confines of the base he finally was able to do the crowd mingling he loves. After 15 relaxed minutes on safe Air Force soil, Ford was driven under heavy guard to a downtown hotel, where he attended a conference of business and civic leaders set up by the White House to discuss domestic and economic problems. In a television interview that evening, Ford broadly hint ed that he would favor renewing individual income tax cuts in 1976 if Congress would hold down spending (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Then, after 28 hours of tension...
...reformers gained a majority of the school committee in the last election when three members affiliated with the Cambridge Civic Association...
Chaotic Classrooms. All this left Shanker in an unenviable position. He knew that a school strike against a city already on its knees would bring civic wrath down on the U.F.T. and might undermine its support. On the other hand, he felt that he could not ask his teachers to give up working conditions won in earlier contracts or to fall further behind the soaring cost of living...
...finds the whole subject of earthquakes discomforting as well as fascinating. But New York, he notes, has its advantages. "Manhattan has a lot of problems," Golden explains, "but very few faults." San Francisco Correspondent John Austin feels considerably queasier. Small wonder, considering that his talks with earthquake researchers and civic defense officials, and perusal of an Office of Emergency Preparedness study, form the basis of the story "The Day San Francisco...
...show that for most Americans, the vintage years may now seem-in the benign middle distance of memory-to have been at the turn of the '60s; Then hope in the direction of events seemed more buoyant and less under challenge than now. If one thinks only of civic well-being and its later decline, that period does indeed seem the best of times...