Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past three years Peking has taken a great leap sideways from the collective idea. Applying what it calls the "responsibility system, " the government is returning much of the country's farming to individual households. The new system is gradually changing the lives of China's 800 million rural residents. The report of TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein...
...relatively well-off Jun Tan brigade is doing far better than the average Chinese rural village. Its per person annual revenue of $201 is well above the national rural average of only $91, and with good reason. Jun Tan's income has doubled since the brigade started practicing two years ago the responsibility system, the basic principle of which is pragmatic: produce more, keep more for yourself...
...basic tenets of Communism, Chinese agricultural officials hastily explain that the responsibility system is not really a departure from collective agriculture because the state-owned land cannot be bought or sold by the farmers. Still, China's bold new experiment is the closest thing to rural private enterprise in the Communist world, outside of Poland and Yugoslavia...
...genteel Buckley clan of fashionable rural Connecticut has long championed free enterprise and political conservatism with considerable charm, commendable wit and decided moral convictions. But the Securities and Exchange Commission, after a 3½-year investigation of Buckley-controlled oil and gas companies, last week portrayed the family's own business practices as unethical and even unlawful. In effect, it accused the companies of having defrauded stockholders to feather the family's nest...
...distant from Johnson too. A popular but powerless Lieutenant Governor since his debut in politics four years ago, Robb relied on winks, nudges and noncommittal words to suggest empathy with each of the ill-fitting elements of his coalition: suburban moderates and independents, coal miners and union members, many rural conservatives and blacks. On issues he was all but indistinguishable from Cole man. Their chief dispute was about which of them more clearly deserved to be called conservative...