11.   And the improvement occurs as other indices of civic engagement, like voting and volunteer work, have been in steep declines.

12.   As that generation has aged, giving way to less trustful more isolated Americans, civic engagement and social capital have declined.

13.   Civic engagement matters.

14.   Civic experts who have studied the results say they offer some intriguing ideas about the forces that reduce class bias and encourage broad civic engagement.

15.   Fostering a World War II-like sense of civic engagement should be a vital goal as well.

16.   He sees American gnosticism itself as an expression of our consumerism and retreat from civic engagement.

17.   Many hardware companies have a long tradition of civic engagement.

18.   Mrs. Shapiro, who has arthritis and hurries from one civic engagement to the next with the help of a walker, started the support groups.

19.   Other students were less likely to engage in those early versions of civic engagement.

20.   Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are asking graduates about everything from their incomes and occupations to their personal values and civic engagement.