Word: civics
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...voters in an aristocracy would only be people who have a strong interest in civic affairs. Voters turnout would be a moot question, unaffected by whether or not pop stars promote civic responsibility on MTV. Should entertainers really be determining the future of our country...
...council is divided five to four between independents, who back Healy, and Cambridge Civic Association councillors, who are more critical of the manager...
About seven Harvard Police who are members of the Honor Guard, a voluntary group of officers which take part in funerals and civic celebrations, helped lead a procession of about 4,000 police who came from as far as Maine and New York...
...plenty of strings attached. MIT can kick the shelter off its property in 40 years if it wants to--and still own the Cambridge streets for all eternity. Judging from its treatment of the issue over the past few years, the shelter shouldn't count on MIT's civic concern. The City Council recognized that this was ludicrous and offered to lease the streets to MIT instead. MIT has refused, and tomorrow city officials and the university will meet to hammer out a final deal...
Self-destruction is virtually a civic preoccupation at Davis Inlet: when Partridge, 38, a former policeman from Halifax, Nova Scotia, arrived two years ago, he found himself involved in suicide intervention at a rate of four cases a month. "Every adult in the community has contemplated suicide," he says. "Every second person has attempted it in one form or another." Nearly one-quarter of the population tried in the past year alone. Partridge also found that 95% of the adult population suffer from alcoholism, and estimates that of 360 children, more than 10% are "problem sniffers" of gasoline...