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  • noun Plural form of public.

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  • Because social democrats understand that basic point, they want to do what they can to encourage trade and growth and cultivate as large a net surplus as possible — all the better to pay for measures that can equalize life chances and cushion publics from the blows that markets inflict.

    Matthew Yglesias » Sherri Berman: Progressives Must Believe in Change 2009

  • Just to illustrate this point a little bit further, data from a forthcoming study by some of my colleagues and myself shows shows that religiosity is already emerging as an important “filter” for certain publics when they make sense of nano.

    God and Small Things - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • You are right about the misinformation in publics mind, but thats because we no longer have an intelligent or independent press.

    HPV Vaccine - Defining the Limits aka TBTAM 2007

  • The Latin American publics followed suit, tired of waiting for Washington's economic prescriptions to deliver progress and relief.

    ModerateVoters.org 2009

  • "We're faced with intense scrutiny from all our various publics, which is a result of a distrust of management and a disenchantment with board governance," said Meyer, who is senior managing director with Steven Hall & Partners, based in New York.

    Are You Making Too Much Money? Directorship 2006

  • Jade, I'm sorry, but I'm not buying this at all -- because the terms you are using to mean something to you are not really applicable to any authentic notion of "publics" and "public space."

    State of Play Virtual Architecture 1.0: Contest Judges Say Enough with the Simulacra Already 2005

  • The kind and the size of the 'publics' an organisation relates to, are different for different types of organisations.

    Contents 1995

  • He is one of that minority group, a businessman in politics -- a very pragmatic one -- who must relish challenge, when one thinks of his many "publics" and the firmly-based pressures which must press upon his office from all sides.

    Bill 22: Must Economic Growth be Achieved at the Expense of Cultural Development? 1975

  • Remember that these various "publics" overlap to a large extent; so such a sales program would cover very nearly the whole population of our two countries.

    Reporting to the Public 1949

  • New York on Murray Street, but afterwards gave his "publics" in the City

    As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

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