Word: civics
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...bothered me that somebody who had delivered such a blow to the civic community should have his name on a list of Harvard Award recipients," De Huff said yesterday. "The Sun-Times has already deteriorated drastically since Murdoch took it over...
Then Bundy asked him whether he would talk about his past with "civic authorities." Diamond replied that he would discuss his own involvement with the FBI, but he would not tell the FBI about others. "But that wasn't good enough. So I didn't get the job," Diamond said...
...TERM can be abused. What is important is not the term, but the situation within which it is expressed. The listener bears as much civic responsibility as the speaker whenever a potentially offensive word or phrase is uttered; knee-jerk reactions can foster unnecessary hostility on occasions when no disparagement was intended...
...coincidentally arrived from New York City aboard the same plane; Rather rode coach, while his fellow millionaires went first-class. The three networks sent about 400 people to Des Moines and spent perhaps $3 million on ad hoc studios. CBS took over and closed off the modernist Civic Center for its newsroom (and already has it booked for 1988). NBC set up shop in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Savery in downtown Des Moines, renting two full floors for offices. ABC crammed itself into a Holiday Inn banquet room. As usual, the networks raced ahead of the results...
...promised to hold elections for a new constituent assembly in July, to be followed by presidential elections in July 1985. But some Guate-"malans doubt Mejía's commitment to democracy. He has fragmented an already weak opposition by allowing minor civic committees to compete with existing political parties. He also abolished the Council of State, a relatively ineffectual body that had the merit of including representatives of the country's 4.7 million Indians. Says Christian Democratic Leader Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo: "The military can accept the democratic process, but not the loss of power...