Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the nation seemed bent on emptying its entire population into metropolitan clots. Surveys have consistently shown that a majority of the people, including almost 4 out of 10 big city dwellers, were partial to a life outside the metropolis. Some leaned to the suburbs and others to more rural vistas. But the biggest single dream remained the small town. Now, when more and more are moving to fulfill that dream, is a suitable time to reflect on what they are getting...
...long been drowned out by the louder outcry of the cities over kindred troubles. Small Town, U.S.A., is in fact likely to be heard from more and more in coming years. In the past decade, through such channels as the National Association of Towns and Townships and the Congressional Rural Caucus, small towns have begun voicing a more concerted plea for federal assistance. By last December they had prodded the White House, long obsessed with city problems, into issuing for the first time a formal policy on small community and rural development. That act represented, whatever else, official recognition that...
...Wertenbaker, 71, has discovered just that in Nelson, N.H. (pop. 550). She likes Nelson for many reasons, including the fact that "in winter people know who's pregnant, and the snow-plow gets there first." U.S. Representative Wes Watkins of Ada, Okla. (pop. 17,000), chairman of the Rural Caucus, is not being merely windy when he says, "People in small towns are not numbers...
...somehow pull themselves together for one more election, and then another and another. Said Vice President Mondale last week: "This Democratic Convention is a mirror of all America ?all of it, black and white, Asian and Hispanic, native and immigrant, male and female, young and old, urban and rural, rich and poor...
...mart's new chairman, Bernard M. Fauber, 57, has plans to keep the chain expanding. He intends to open 180 to 190 new stores a year, many of them in urban and rural areas that the chain does not reach now. New stores are likely to be only about half the size of K mart's normal retail barns...