However, it also squandered much of the prestige it had enjoyed for upholding a spirit of public service that dated all the way back to the glory days of the samurai era in the 17th-19th centuries.
With few in their right mind snubbing healthy eating these days, you'd think that when a government agency suggests a scheme to help shoppers more easily identify noxious grub, retailers would happily take part in a spirit of warm public-private camaraderie.
As a fellow entrepreneur with a public-service orientation, I have been a longtime admirer of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to acting on his principles.
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The farmers are just as disgruntled: "Europe was born out of the spirit of wine, " winegrower Rudolf Trossen argued at a public hearing on Wednesday.
As his dwindling band of supporters argues about Swedish rape law, UK extradition treaties and theorizes on a plot to spirit him to Guantanamo Bay via Stockholm, Julian Assange attracts the public approval of creepy rape apologists and intellectually incurious political sloganeers enamored with his (relatively recent) shift toward virulent anti-Western rhetoric.
But in the spirit of commercialism there are now plans to build a subterranean shopping complex and a huge public transit terminal from 30ft below ground level.
Tokyo architect Hideyuki Nakayama said the home, while aesthetically modern in every sense, is true to the spirit and philosophy of old Kyoto homes, which integrated public and private space seamlessly in a way that created a sense of flow.
That would be a change in behavior we would all welcome, and certainly one that would truly be in the spirit of public transparency.
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