Word: agrarian
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Scares has long held that elaborate consultations with the opposition on pending legislation could be interpreted as a "privileged relationship" that might erode his ability to govern. But when it became obvious that the Socialists did not have the votes to push through a crucial agrarian reform bill designed to reduce Communist control in the agricultural Alentejo, he had to compromise. While the C.D.S. refused to support the Socialist approach, the P.S.D. was swayed by Scares' offer to include some property-protection guarantees that it advocated and, more important, by a promise to hold "working group discussions" with...
...1950s, North Carolina seemed to be exporting even more home-grown university talent than fine tobacco. Traditionally agrarian, the state had little to offer college graduates, who kept going north for better paying jobs. In 1959 a group of public-spirited North Carolinians came up with a solution: a "research park." Modeled after industrial parks-scientific companies were sought as tenants, rather than manufacturers-research centers flourished in the early '60s on the edges of the space race. But by 1965 many were faltering or had already failed, victims of an economic recession and a switch in priorities...
...disabled Vietnamese, and three million unemployed South Vietnamese. Even more serious, perhaps, was the total economic and social dislocation of the Vietnamese population caused by America's decision to bomb and defoliate the Vietnamese countryside, disregarding--or, more probably, desiring--the consequences that action would have on a primarily agrarian society...
...encouraging foreign investment. Since then, vast sections of a breathtakingly beautiful country have been transformed-though not always in a flattering way. Huge development projects have brought roads, electricity, hospitals and schools to the hinterlands. Nonetheless most of Indonesia remains as it always was: a verdant wilderness populated by agrarian peoples...
...disabled Vietnamese, and three million unemployed South Vietnamese. Even more serious, perhaps, was the total economic and social dislocation of the Vietnamese population caused by America's decision to bomb and defoliate the Vietnamese countryside, disregarding--or, more probably, desiring--the consequences that action would have on a primarily agrarian society...