Word: civics
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...most Crimson fans, last year didn't finish with great ratings--Harvard concluded its season with a 6-5 loss to Michigan State in the national finals at the Civic Center in Providence...
...authorized tone for treating global humanity, a tone that to some photographers seemed cloying and official. In the anxieties and feral pleasures that link the Tokyo doorman to the Roman on his Vespa, Klein found his own underpinnings of human affairs. He offered intimacy without violins, civic life without trumpets, humanism with a human face...
...coffee and liqueurs, their chairs tightly ringing the table. They spoke with obvious emotion and leaned forward to hear the responses. The focus of their attention, listening more than he talked, was Edward Perkins, the first black U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. For three hours he traded thoughts with civic leaders from Soweto, the black township outside Johannesburg...
...asks pointed questions. His interlocutors say that what impresses them most is his intensity. In his new post, Perkins has had unreported talks with dozens of black leaders, including Albertina Sisulu, co-president of the United Democratic Front, the largest antigovernment group, and Nthato Motlana, chairman of the Soweto Civic Association...
...headquarters town becomes especially vulnerable. Blue Bell, the manufacturer of Wrangler jeans, shut down its Greensboro, N.C., headquarters after the company was acquired by VF Corp. That put 300 people out of work and meant the end of Blue Bell's strong support of Greensboro's arts and civic activities. Thirty miles to the west, Winston-Salem was dealt a similar blow after R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands in 1985. Last month RJR Nabisco announced it will move its corporate headquarters from Winston-Salem to Atlanta, taking along not only some 250 jobs but the considerable corporate prestige...