Word: rural
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...persevered through fierce internal clashes. In late 1987, Chrysler was slipping again, and Iacocca began to recognize the problems, including the overly autocratic force of his own leadership. He instigated what has since become known as Truth Week, during which the company's top 500 executives went to a rural Wisconsin retreat to conduct an unsparing self-examination. Doug Anderson, a motivational expert who acted as a session leader, recalls the intensity of emotion. "The pain within the Chrysler corporation was evident from Day One," he says. "They cared a lot about the business and took enormous pride in having...
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT VIETNAM WAS A CLASS WAR, WHOSE burden was borne disproportionately by the inner-city and rural poor and minorities. Well, it seems that everybody is wrong. A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of ) Technology, co-funded by the U.S. Army, shows that the 58,000 Americans who died in the war represented a good cross section of the nation. By analyzing the family income of those servicemen, the M.I.T. team found that 26% of the casualties were from families earning in the highest third of the income range, vs. 30% of casualties from the lowest third...
...victims. But Bebe Moore Campbell knows better. Her remarkable first novel, YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE (Putnam; $22.95), begins with a fictionalized account of the murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955 for speaking to a white woman in a rural Mississippi town. As in real life, the murderer is acquitted by an all-white jury, but over the next 30 years the murderer's family, unable to adapt to the new ways brought on by the civil rights movement, falls into poverty. The victim's family seeks solace...
...only reason -- consumers also know a bargain. At an average 88 cents per lb. for a whole broiler, chicken costs 50% less than it did three decades ago, after adjustment for inflation. One reason for the low prices is that fowl production is concentrated in poor rural areas of the South...
Teaching for America is a new and exciting program that allows recent graduates to teach in rural and urban public schools while obtaining certification. More information is available in the OCS Library in section...