Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survey showed that, for the first time, more people were living in urban areas than in the countryside. Despite the shifting population, states were slow to reallocate congressional seats so that each district would have the same average population. The 1960 census dramatically revealed the failing: Georgia's rural Ninth District, for example, had a population of 272,154, while the urban Fifth had 823,680. These figures provided a factual basis for the "one man, one vote" decisions in 1963 and 1964 by the U.S. Supreme Court. They changed congressional and state districting -and the fate...
...radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from large estates, many held by absentee landowners; the confiscated properties would be turned into state-run rural cooperatives. At the same time, a series of decrees nationalized the banking system, giving the state 51% interest in each of the ten banks and laying down the guidelines for eventual employee ownership of minority shares...
Apart from safety, the biggest problem facing Ugandans is finding enough to eat. The food shortage is most acute in the rural northeast, where U.N. officials estimate that 136,000 people are on the verge of starvation. Savage Karamojong tribesmen, armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles looted from one of Amin's arsenals, raid villages and harass the missionary outposts where relief food and medicine are distributed. Famine may eventually hit Kampala, where many workers earn 500 shillings ($68) or less a month, barely enough to purchase three bunches of green bananas, the staple of the diet. Complains a Kampala...
...Pennsylvania was the most important primary in 1976, and it probably will be again in 1980.... There's plenty of time for a very intense campaign. And the state is fascinating--it is northeastern, but it has lots of rural areas, big cities and many suburbs. It's a great stage for the showdown...
Only one character outside the family group appears at any length: the temptress in this rural Eden. An outraged father spoils the Miller's teenaged son's romance when he finds the shockingly explicit love poems by Swinburne that young Richard Miller has smuggled to his daughter. Heart-broken, Richard goes out for a night on the town with a friend of a friend whom he discovers to be a common prostitute. Daniel Sherman, the director, miscast Lydia Alix Fillingham as the whore. She perches on Richard's lap when she should sprawl. Her effort at a hard-boiled accent...