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Citizens would do better to follow the example of the 75,000 southern Floridians who belong to Citizens Crime Watch (C.C.W.), a nonprofit neighborhood corporation that works closely with local police departments. When a C.C.W. member spots a crime in progress, he telephones the police as well as his block captain and two other volunteers. Each of those three calls another three members, and so on until all the volunteers in the neighborhood are notified. Armed with pencils and notebooks instead of .38s, the crime watchers jot down details of the crime and suspects before the police arrive. Local authorities...
...Consumers Union, a nonprofit organization, publishes Consumer Reports, a monthly magazine that evaluates brand-name products ranging from bicycles to organic food...
...leaders were so angry that they threatened to sue Bliss if he did not withdraw from negotiations. If the opera kills the season, it will lose $7 million and Bliss, charges the union, will be violating the legal duties he owes the public as an officer of a nonprofit organization. As the week ended, there was much noise, but no harmony whatsoever at the grand and glorious...
...biggest and presumably most profitable Hughes venture, the Hughes Aircraft Co., the nation's eighth largest defense contractor (with more than $2 billion in sales last year), is not controlled by Summa. Since 1953 it has been the property of the Miami-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit foundation that is dominated by Lummis' old antagonists Davis and Gay. Hughes' former henchmen have filed suit against Lummis, claiming that Hughes intended all his holdings, including Summa, to go to the Medical Institute. Lummis has countersued, challenging their control of the Medical Institute. But while that battle...
...Emperor Augustus, but he adds: "One document, however, you must read, the Res Gestae of Augustus." The teaching texts frequently direct students to consult particular portions of their main source books, or to jot down answers to questions. Maryland University and Broadcasting Center officials, who jointly direct the nonprofit N.U.C., say that many adults prefer such guided study at home to night-school classes. Observes Frederick Breitenfeld Jr., executive director of the Broadcasting Center: "N.U.C. courses look better and better compared with three nights a week of rushing through dinner, getting a babysitter, finding a campus parking place, and dozing...