Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same places that the old doctors went. The fact is...where solid citizens don't want to live, doctors don't want live and practice either. You are gonna have to figure out some way of getting health care to those devastated areas of the inner city and the rural slums where doctors don't want to practice...
After eight months of determined struggle, marked by protest demonstrations, sit-ins and even threats of mass crop strikes, Poland's private farmers last week finally won the promise of legal recognition for Rural Solidarity, the 800,000-member independent agricultural union. The unprecedented agreement, signed by government negotiators and peasant leaders at an emotional ceremony in the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz, called for the union's registration...
There were, of course, many degrees of intensity under the wide shadow of realism. Painters of rural life, like Jules Breton, idealized rather more than their urban counterparts. There was a lengthy tradition of peasant decor in French art, and artists tended to see the country as a happy escape from the grinding realities of the city-the great exception being Millet, with his unfaltering sense of the earth and its rigors, and the stupors it enforced on those who worked it. One may doubt whether the women's work of gleaning after harvest was normally as dignified...
...thought he had escaped. Instead of adding depth to the Hochschwender Wexford confrontation, his observations reduce the action to a series of cliches. Reflecting on "that monster war," Hallam sees it "sending last thin even here to this still reverberating around the world even here to this little rural corner...
...breaks a new window in the chapel; four athletes corner a suspect and, while trying to force a confession out of him, bring on his death. A teacher then meditates on "that monster war-sending last thin death waves still reverberating around the world, even here to this little rural corner...