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○ 질문출처 :  500 the test 공무원 기출 문제집 2011 국가직 7급 p46쪽

질문은 김정호 선생님 강의 및 교재만 가능합니다! (공무원/편입은 기출문제까지 가능)

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○ 질문내용 :

The nucleus of the population is the local businessmen, whose interests constitute the municipal policy and control its municipal administration. The local businessmen are such as the local bankers, merchants of many kinds and degrees, real estate prompters, local lawyers, local clergymen... The businessmen, who take up the local traffic in merchandising, litigation, church enterprise and the like, commonly begin with some share in the real estate speculation. This affords a common bond and a common ground of pecuniary interest; which commonly masquerades under the name of local patriotism, public spirit, civic pride, and the like. This pretense of public spirit is so consistently maintained that most of these men come presently to believe in their own professions' worth. Pecuniary interest in the continued growth of the town, hence any creditable misrepresentation of the town's volume of business traffic, population, tributary farming community, or natural resources, is rated as serviceable to the common good. And any member of this business-like community will be rated as a meritorious citizen in proportion as he is serviceable to this~

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