Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prohibited federal agencies from exchanging data about private citizens without their consent. Yet the Administration, despite the protests of the A.C.L.U. and other watchdog groups, is planning to expand further its computer matching efforts to include families applying for college loans, veterans using VA hospitals and rural families asking the Farmers Home Administration for low-interest housing loans...
Professor of Government Hugh Heclo said he will make the move to the suburban, northern Virginia school in order to raise his family in what he called a more pleasant, rural environment...
...more rural here, the winters are warmer, and there's more sun," Heclo said from the White Post, Va., home where he has lived for the past year while on sabbatical at George Mason...
Most dish owners, however, are less interested in disrupting other people's TV signals than in ending the disruption of their own. When home receiving dishes first became available in 1979, they were a boon for rural residents who lived outside the range of cable hookups. With a dish-shaped antenna aimed at one of several communications satellites circling the globe, these viewers could watch not just satellite-beamed entertainment channels (which cable systems pick up with their own dishes and distribute to subscribers via cables), but foreign broadcasts, corporate video conferences, even the private transmissions of network programs like...
...should not criticize a student who, having that kind of debt, wants to go where risks are fewer and the economic rewards are greater. He has to pay those dollars back and with interest. And the rural area or the depressed area presents a problem if you owe $50,000," Fein says...