Word: rural
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Farmers Home Administration. Since this agency spends some $14.5 billion a year among the nation's farmers and in small rural communities, it has strong backing from many of the nation's Congressmen. Reagan is proposing to chop only some $100 million out of FHA's 1982 outlays, but by reducing commitments for grants and loans to build water and sewage systems in small towns, future savings would grow substantially. The agency's most personal service has been to lend farmers who cannot get conventional loans the money they need to plant their crops, buy land...
...added that his committee has invited Roy Prosterman, a U.S. official working on the Salvadoran junta's "rural land reform" program, to participate in the teach-in. Raskin said Prosterman has not yet replied...
...that region of the country are as myriad and American as any other. There is none of the hyper-moralism (complete with burning tractors and side-show stigmas) that was supposed to be such a feature of Southern Writing. There is none of the harking back to the rural past--for the South has grown, and the oral tradition has given way to a howling one. It is the sound, not of yarns spinning off into the night air, but of men who have chucked the mint julip at their wives and are skyrocketing down the interstate with...
...long-awaited decision on Rural Solidarity last week, the Supreme Court executed a deft compromise that at first appeared to defuse a dangerous possible confrontation. Thousands of peasants from all over the country, many of them wearing colorful local costumes, had converged on Warsaw to hear the court's decision first hand. They sang and cheered as Walesa, sporting a short-brimmed peasant's cap, entered the gray stone court building to attend the hearing. He got a less enthusiastic reception when he emerged onto the steps five hours later to announce the court's verdict...
Though they later rejected the idea of an association, Rural Solidarity organizers said that they would continue to seek union status through legal channels rather than with strikes. But the next day in Rzeszow, where 300 peasants have occupied a government building for six weeks, the group's leaders suddenly reversed themselves. They now threatened not to plant crops this spring unless they are granted full union status. They also received an influential new endorsement: Poland's Roman Catholic hierarchy issued a bold statement declaring that the farmers' "right to free assembly as trade unions must...