Word: civics
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...which could be assessed by one's colleagues, but which might not be designated by the term "research," a term which itself shifts meaning as one leaves the more eminent institutions for those where "research" may mean a book review in the local paper or a talk to a civic group...
Leaving Hartford's Civic Center, where Gerald Ford had just addressed a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, a presidential motorcade of seven cars headed fast for Bradley International Airport. The procession was led by four Connecticut state police cruisers, none sounding sirens or flashing emergency lights. Worse, the cars were spaced so far apart that the President's Lincoln limousine was about five seconds behind the cruisers when it approached an intersection just three blocks from the civic center...
Good people, families, humanists, schools, civic institutions, voluntary societies that are untouched by religion are as involved in the search as are those who identify with particular faiths. Many of them have found terms for moral action in their own "colonies" or "tribes," whether these be philosophical and family traditions, racial and ethnic clusters, age and sex groupings, or movements and causes. In recent years moral renewal has occurred more frequently within these colonies and tribes than in their federation, the national community. Voluntary associations, some derived from the churches' "errand of mercy," and some growing out of other...
...greatest drains on New York's wealth, patience and civic stability is the enormous welfare community, which has defied all efforts to cut it down. Relief rolls tripled in the 1960s, the most prosperous years in the nation's history. Today more than 1 million people-one out of every eight New Yorkers -are on welfare. Their benefits are the nation's highest. A family of four gets an average $258 a month along with $130 for rent, as well as food stamps and free medical care. The city also offers the widest range of supplements, such as payments...
...abandoned areas in The Bronx and Brooklyn are next to slums, they are potentially desirable because they are conveniently located. The city could clear them and erect row houses to be sold to middle-class buyers. Says I.D. Robbins, a builder and former president of the City Club, a civic watchdog group: "There is a tremendous capital investment left over from the time these neighborhoods thrived. All that is missing is people...