His liberal critics retort that the state has a duty to protect minorities, rather than sacrifice them to some supposed public good.
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These pose the question of whether people working in the White House should serve only the president, or also some distinct concept of the public good.
While domestic strengthening of institutional frameworks for the financial and corporate sectors is no doubt required, there is also a need for an architecture -- some sort of international "public good" -- to maximize the advantages of international capital market integration while mitigating its risks.
Demand Equal Pay for Women is just a page of data, though its developers have done some of their own calculations on top of the public data, and the site has some good statistics: closing the gender pay gap, they say, would add half a trillion dollars to the consumer economy.
Corporations are no longer able to sit back and take profit without re-investing some of those earnings back into the public good.
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But it is absolutely true that any of the ideas that have been mentioned here are still going to require some public dollars, and those are actually good investments to make right now.
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Eco-friendly Philly boasts some 220 miles of bike lanes, good public transportation and the crown jewel of urban parks, 9, 200-acre Fairmount Park.
Nowadays it has become de rigueur for any business that wants to be in good standing with the public to be able to describe its various good works, although some companies take this a lot more seriously than others.
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When I invited public input on my official website, some very good suggestions poured in there, too, that are likely to prove helpful.
There is some good news to report: both the general public and individual legislators understand and are responsive to the moral imperative of stopping humanitarian crises.
At least the bill requires public disclosure of trading, which may shame some politicians into good behaviour.
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Some states, such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu, have good public services and social indicators despite slow urbanisation, but resisting it also comes at a price.
Some of the housing companies are looking good and as the impact of public-works spending is felt, selective construction stocks will look good too.
When done, take the company public, cash out on the IPO, and know I did some good.
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If it did, improving the infrastructure and public services of the country's underdeveloped interior might really do some good.
Project volunteers say the first 110lb (50kg) of milled grain is not yet suitable for public consumption but they hope to see how good it tastes with some private baking.
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Playing the lottery is gambling, which people will do anyway, so why not let the state capture some of this revenue, so it can at least be reinvested in the public good?
Whilst these references reveal the disdain with which she regarded some aspects of the Good Friday Agreement, what is most significant is that such public comments were so few and far between.
Every year some 500 participants work where good teachers are needed most -- in our hard-pressed urban and rural public schools.
Once idolized by some for its "greed is good" mentality, the Wall Street of today still faces a barrage of public criticism for the carnage unleashed during the financial crisis.
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