Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written largely by Auden, is a series of seemingly peripheral scenes and songs in the modern disjunctive genre, tenuously held together by the quest of Alan Norman (played by Mark Driscoll) and his dog for the missing Sir Francis Crewe (Paul Warner). The general of Pressan Ambo, the rural English town where the quest begins, explains the dog's disloyalty to all as if he were speaking of the play itself: "It's his mongrel blood, of course No loyalty, no proper feeling...
...medium could start carrying pay TV and advertiser-supported programming over a planned 30 or so channels as early as 1986. It is likely to make its most immediate appeal to rural areas, where ordinary TV reception is poor and program choices are few, and to city dwellers in areas not wired for cable. "Our primary market will be the nonserved and the underserved," predicts a spokesman for Satellite Television Corp., one of nine companies that have lined up to start the new service, hoping for FCC construction permits within 90 days. Admits William Bresnan, chairman of Group W Cable...
Many of the high-tech companies with manufacturing operations in the area have settled in the rural and suburban areas, such as the so-called "technology belt" along Route 128. "To make sure those kinds of industries come into the city," Lindquist continues, "we would have to really best the bushes and actively recruit. Then we would have to offer incentives." In other words, Cambridge would need the comprehensive employment and development plan it now lacks...
...road in his politics than in his aggressive editing instincts. In 1972 he became editor of the fledgling Texas Monthly and helped turn it into a major success, thanks to a mix of investigative pieces (e.g., "Why Teachers Can't Teach") and colorful features ("In Search of Rural America"). When the Texas Monthly corporation purchased New West (which was later renamed California magazine) in 1980, Broyles became its editor in chief. There he converted the magazine to a monthly from a biweekly and employed large, thematic cover ideas (e.g., "Waiting for the Big One," about earthquakes) to help mold...
...FEMA), new national civil defense plans announced recently concentrate on "crisis relocation"--evacuating 145 million people from 450 sites expected to be principal targets in a Soviet nuclear attack. The refugees would receive instructions under the federal plan to hop in their cars and drive en masse to various rural "host communities...