Word: farmlands
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...tour of Vietnam, after Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July. But for once in an American movie, the focus is on the Vietnamese, and on the sufferers: the land and the women. Phung Le Ly (played by newcomer Hiep Thi Le), growing up in the idyllic rice farmland of central Vietnam, becomes the victim of every possible atrocity as civil war heats up in the late '50s. She is tortured with knives, electric prods, snakes, even ants; she is brutalized by the republican army and raped by the Viet Cong. She is a stand-in for her lovely...
Francis Cabot Lowell built the country's first water-powered cotton mill on farmland near Pawtucket Falls in northeastern Massachusetts in 1814. Within two decades the area had become one of the foremost industrial centers in America. As more mills were built, their owners recruited young, single New England farm girls as laborers. When the "mill girls," as they were called, rebelled against the long hours and low wages, they were replaced by Irishmen fleeing the potato famine of the 1840s. In a scheme to rid downtown Lowell of the unwanted Irish workers, the Yankee mill owners donated an acre...
Nearby in the Pudong economic zone, which was swampy farmland only two years ago, modern highways, bridges and office buildings are taking shape. Shanghai will soon emerge as "the national and international financial center," boasts Huang Ju, the city's mayor. It will be "the dragon's head that will pull the body of the Yangtse River valley," home to a third of China's 1.2 billion people, into a new age of prosperity...
Moreover, much of Korea's population still labors in rice paddies on the hilly farmland, and uses relatively crude machinery and techniques...
...funds dry up. Gross domestic product is growing at an annual rate of less than 1%. Six of every 10 people are unemployed or so underemployed they have trouble buying basic necessities, and 70% of the population lives in poverty. Progress is stymied by battles over farmland, and small landowners, even recompas, complain that they cannot gain access to credit because the Sandinistas control bank disbursements...