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...think about a lot more than balance sheets. He is a big gun in the country's most socially aware and alert business community. Prodded by McLaughlin and others, 45 Minneapolis-area companies donate 5% of pretax profits to charity and are active in all manner of civic uplift projects. And so it is not surprising that McLaughlin is concerned much less about snow than about something more universal: water...
...quiet it all down," Sullivan said. "Condos and rent control are the kinds of issues that are important to focus on," he continues, "because they allow us to get at the contradictions in voting for the independent candidates." The independent city councilors are often lined up against the Cambridge Civic Association slate of reform progressives which disapproves of condos and favors rent control. "Politically, it's a very good issue for the progressives, although the crisis that makes it an issue is obviously awful," Sullivan said, adding, "I've been canvassing for months, and for tenants, it is the only...
...return to the U.S.S.R., there was ample time to persuade her. When she arrived in Moscow, Vlasova was quoted as denouncing the U.S. for trying to compel her to stay, and was hailed hi the Soviet press as a heroine "who took a position of dignity and lofty civic duty" in the face of the "bourgeois brigands" of the U.S. If nothing else, the manner of her exit has probably saved her from what otherwise would have been her fate: the stigma of being the wife of a "traitor" with consequent loss of status, pay and dance roles...
Increasingly, shopping centers and civic institutions are recruiting street musicians instead of complaining about them. Boston's Quincy Market, Manhattan's Lincoln Center and San Francisco's Cannery all audition or actually hire them for scheduled performances. In Boston, a nonprofit group called Articulture Inc. deploys street musicians at three subway stops during rush hours, which "lowers the collective blood pressure." Currently, commuters at the Park Street station are bemused to encounter Nancy Feins strumming the strains of C.P.E. Bach on the harp. "One woman asked me if this was a harpsichord," says Feins. "Another person swore...
...Hunt remarked: "I think we've got the attitude in this country that Government has to do everything for people. My whole approach is 'Let's try to do it for ourselves on the local level.' " The magazine sought figures of integrity who have exerted a significant social or civic impact, regardless of politics or ideology. Boston College President J. Donald Monan expressed an instructive distinction: "Most of the leaders I am acquainted with are not technicians. They have large souls and a sense of values...