Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Citizens Party sounds extremist only when it proposes "citizen control of major investment and resource decisions." But surveys show the public resents both big business and big government. The Citizens Party is on the right track in advocating decentralized energy sources and decentralized control of business as means for people to regain a sense of power over their own lives. The party's task is to demonstrate that decentralized power does not spell a denuded standard of living...
Beneath a huge sepia photograph of the general, the speakers are extolling his qualities as citizen-soldier-statesman...
...captain of fives at Eton. The Times's famous letters-to-the-editor column was missed perhaps most of all. There was simply no other place to debate, as Times readers once did, how to keep one's hand warm in bed while reading (a concerned citizen's suggestion: slits in the bedclothes). Commented an Observer contributor last winter: "For those who were hooked on the Times, there is clearly no substitute. There is quiet, uncomprehending, slow-bubbling rage about its disappearance...
...mayor, who talks about Harvard and expansion a lot less than his colleagues, was the major driving force behind the city's involvement in a citizen's group lawsuit asking for an injunction against extension of the Red Line. Danehy is a neighborhood man at heart, and though he protested the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's project on technical grounds' he feared about crime and protecting Cambridge...
Vellucci, a senior citizen, counts many elderly residents among his supporters. "I love the elderly; I'd never vote against them, never," he says...