Word: civics
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...Baseball is America," King said. "Nothing exemplifies the civic life of America more than baseball." He said that it was therefore important to "learn about baseball's past and future with respect to women...
...wrongdoing--they were, after all, dealing with a potential threat--then we must turn our attention to the other actors in this saga: the citizens who reported the terrorist industrial cleaners and called in soap "leads" to the Bureau. In a country that is regularly bemoaned for its diminished civic participation, this mass public action seems strangely incongruous. It is a sad state of affairs when it takes a threat to national security to galvanize the citizenry to action. People don't take the time to vote in national elections or to engage in civic life, but they will eagerly...
...conducted mostly by middle-aged folks as you may have noticed. Most of our cohort could care less. Our parents, on the other hand, moan about it and fondle it from one moment to the next. Some beg us to embrace the Internet as a paradigm of civic virtue, while others see it as a conduit of sin, the high road to pornography and all manners of smut...
...apparent to everyone. Deng had transformed the world's most populous nation into something like a capitalist country--albeit one still run with a heavy, communist-style hand. That cover story too followed an exclusive interview; this one included not only TIME journalists but also a group of U.S. civic, academic and business leaders who were our guests on a TIME Newstour of Asia...
While the suggestions listed above are offered only semi-seriously, there is nothing flippant about the goal of maintaining a vital and relevant civic culture. Civic institutions such as national holidays and national anthems must have meaning in order to bind our country together...