Word: agrarian
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TARBIE seems to think I'm jealous. Me? Jealous? Of someone whose idea of a good time involves selecting Macintosh fonts for her husband's thesis on agrarian dermatology? Hardly...
...Continent's poorest and most backward country, Albania is a wedge of Balkan territory on the southern Adriatic coast between Yugoslavia and Greece. An agrarian land where workers earn an average wage of $85 a month, the country is as rigid economically as it is politically. Albania even broke relations with the Soviet Union in 1961 and China in 1978 after those powers experimented with early liberalization programs. Since he succeeded the late dictator Enver Hohxa in 1985, President Ramiz Alia, 65, has only gradually modified the most egregious of his predecessor's restrictive policies...
Chamorro's economic advisers aim to decentralize by establishing private savings institutions and liberating coffee and cotton growers from state controls to seek higher prices for their crops. But Ortega warned that his party will resist any attempt to roll back such Sandinista policies as agrarian reform and the nationalization of the country's banks...
...press secretary Adolfo Azcuna, were prompted "by the same reasons, perhaps, that precipitated the coup." None of the ousted ministers had been accused of corruption, but some of their departments were widely considered ineffective, particularly Justice, Transportation and Education, where services had virtually broken down. Aquino also overhauled the Agrarian Reform Department, which has largely failed to deliver on her election promise of land redistribution...
...contest narrowed the 21-candidate field to Collor and a gritty dark-horse opponent, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, a union leader and former industrial lathe operator who heads the leftist Workers' Party. Lula pounded away at populist themes -- he warned Collor that his landholdings would be subject to agrarian reform -- and outpointed the young conservative in the first of two televised debates. Toward the campaign's close, Collor took the low road, airing campaign spots that featured the married Lula's former lover, but the two continued to run neck and neck. Only at the end did the conservative...