Word: quietness
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...better able to spare. But the time-money swap, which is washing over the charity world like a tidal wave during this recession, poses stiff challenges for nonprofits. They can't pay the rent with volunteer hours. One in two nonprofits says its funding has fallen, according to "The Quiet Crisis," a new report by Civic Enterprises, a social-issues think tank. When the economy was this rotten in the early 1970s, charitable giving fell more than 9%, adjusted for inflation. Experts believe something like that will occur in this recession...
...Adapting to the high level of Division I pitching takes every freshman a great deal of time, and Albright, O’Hara, and O’Neill were no different. But while their bats may have been slightly quiet, the three of them were able to make names for themselves immediately with some outstanding play in the field...
...Kromberg also revealed last week for the first time that the prosecutors who had tried al-Arian in Florida did not want their Virginia colleagues to proceed with the subpoena but kept quiet about it anyway. One possible reason, say defense lawyers: had the defense team known that its client would be compelled to testify in a separate case, the plea deal might have crumbled, denying the Tampa prosecutors even that one conviction. The U.S. Attorney's offices in Florida and Virginia would not comment when contacted by TIME, and the reasons for their actions in the case may never...
...building and cooperation: “When I was abroad, I got so many ideas from Africa, from Afghanistan, and the Near East, to create film programs that help deal with the problems in those regions.”The Marshall Plan films had the collective effect of a quiet reawakening of the European will to create cinema. “When a road-show comes to town to screen a film program, whether its propaganda or not, its going to reestablish an interest in movies that may have been lost during the war—that was quelled either...
...this quiet strength. Due in part to her efforts my budget was restored entirely." -June S. Binney, a former New York official who oversaw health care in the city's correctional system. (New York Times...