Word: rural
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...current issue of the American Journal of Public Health, was conducted by three researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Knud J. Helsing, Moyses Szklo and George W. Comstock followed the lives of 1,204 men and 2,828 women in semi-rural Washington County, Md., who were widowed between 1963 and 1974. With each spouse's death, the survivor was matched with a still married person, cross-referenced for comparison not only by race, sex and age, but also by such factors as years of schooling, age at first marriage, frequency of church...
...orphan cub, is taken in and raised by kindly Widow Tweed, whose farm occupies a patch of rural terrain somewhere in the American midcentury. Down the road a pace is the shack of Amos Slade, a grizzled old hunter who keeps a grizzled old hound dog named Chief and a cheerful hound pup, Copper...
...program for the housebound elderly, transportation for the disabled and services to victims of child abuse-and even whether to continue some of the programs at all. Generally, mayors and other city leaders fear that state legislatures will slash programs benefiting city dwellers more deeply than those popular with rural and suburban residents. "Big-city school programs are chewed up by Reagan's block-grant concept," says Forrest Rieke, chairman of the Portland, Ore., school board. "It pits us against the downstate interests, and their folks in the legislature definitely have us outnumbered...
...task was to help finance the rebuilding of Europe after World War II. But over the years its focus has shifted increasingly toward Third World economic development. Last year it lent more than $12 billion to nearly 100 countries for projects such as mining, agricultural development, road building and rural electrification...
Originally, Gardner wanted to reach out to the Hispanic half of the community by opening with Garcia Lorca's revenge tragedy of rural Spain, Blood Wedding, with five performances in Spanish. He planned to follow with John O'Keeffe's 1791 English comedy, Wild Oats. "Those thoughts," says Gardner, "came from sitting in west Greenwich Village apartments, not New Mexico. I assumed that because of the opera and the chamber festival, the audience would be sophisticated. When I talked to people about what they wanted to see, everybody, but absolutely everybody, said Neil Simon. I found...