Word: agrarian
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Sport is hardly the only arena in which China aims to be faster, higher and stronger. A little more than three decades ago, the People's Republic was an isolated, agrarian nation whose closest international ally was Albania. Today China is making new partners around the world as it vies with the U.S. and Europe in the race to gobble up markets and natural resources. Its trade with Africa and Latin America has increased sixfold since 2001. It is the world's top consumer of cement, grain, meat, coal, copper and steel. Back at home, China has transformed itself into...
...says. While this system may be more difficult to implement in large cities, in small towns and villages, says Francis Matthey, a former socialist parliamentarian and currently President of the Federal Commission on Migration, "it would play right into the SVP's hands, because of the party's strong agrarian base." Under the current system a rejected candidate for citizenship has the right to appeal; the SVP wants any such decision to be irrevocable...
...that the region will need to invest $600 million during the upcoming planting cycle that starts this month, though it's not yet clear where that money would come from or how the financing would work. But analysts suggest that of the participating countries, Nicaragua - precisely because of its agrarian backwardness - offers the best conditions for a major boost to regional agricultural output...
...which is under 35. The region's growing economic clout, says Gerald Knaus, director of the European Stability Initiative, an Istanbul-based think tank, suggests that divisions in Turkey between wealthy, secular élites and the conservative Muslim middle class are disappearing. "We are seeing the transformation of an agrarian society into an industrial economy," he says...
...Huaxi got a head start on sky-high socialism in 1969, when Communist Party secretary Wu Renbao founded a village-owned textile factory - a rarity at the time. Gradually, the town switched from agriculture to manufacturing, embracing urbanization amid the pro-agrarian orthodoxy of China's Cultural Revolution. The move paid off. In the 1990s, it became the first commune in China to list shares on a stock exchange...