Word: civics
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...general idea of civic participation--so well invoked by President John F. Kennedy's famous "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" address--kindles our feelings of patriotism, and re-affirms a populist sentiment that the creative powers of the individual can help solve the problems of a society...
Since the early 1970s, the council has been split between candidates running on the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) platform and those running as independents. Although the independents currently hold a 5-4 majority, independent Mayor Vellucci often sides with the CCA, producing an uneasy balance of power between the parties...
...soul of the city will hang in the balance in the next election," says Bradley Desch, executive director of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), a liberal political organization in the city that supports rent control...
Rena Leib says she wants to preserve the liberal tradition of the council, adding she will seek backing from the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). While Leib says she opposed Proposition 1-2-3, she says she might favor restricting rent control to people below a certain income...
...Robert McNamara proposed compulsory national service as a remedy for the inequities of the military draft. Now, amid the first stirrings of a rebirth of altruism, the idea has been revived by congressional Democrats eager to inspire what Georgia Senator Sam Nunn calls "a new spirit of citizenship and civic obligation in America...