Word: rural
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...design of the building "scales back from the square," Winchenbaugh explains, with the floors getting smaller and smaller as they go up. The top floors will be landscaped to provide "a rural view of the square," Winchenbaugh adds...
...most places, the idea has met with anger, outrage -- and defeat. Last fall a proposal in rural Talbot County, Md., to make condoms available in high schools failed to pass the school board by just one vote. In prosperous Marin County, Calif., Tamalpais High School abandoned a plan for condom distribution after a coalition of pro-life supporters and parents filed suit to stop it. Los Angeles' pilot reproductive-health project overcame vigorous opposition only when the city agreed to a parental-consent feature; about 75% of parents at the three participating schools have acceded...
...gains by invading "areas where the people are naturally very religious and the Catholic Church has been chronically short of priests." Protestants, for example, provide the only community leadership in many parts of Peru that have been overrun by Shining Path terrorists. In Guatemala too, Evangelical pastors have saturated rural areas, greatly outnumbering Catholic priests. At the same time, they have been charged with interfering in traditional Indian ways of life...
Across the rolling countryside, the normal peace of rural life is shattered by volleys of gunfire. Under the hot summer sun of the Southern Hemisphere, sheep farmers are carrying out one of the largest animal slaughters in history. Some families drive off in tears after delivering their gentle charges to the killing pens where, next to mass burial pits, firing squads will dispose of 20 million sheep over the next year...
...economy that relies on products of the land for export earnings, the rural crisis is especially painful. Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, now retired to his sheep and cattle ranch in the state of Victoria, warns that the slump could be the worst since the Great Depression 60 years ago. According to the New South Wales Farmers Association, its members are selling out and leaving the land at the rate of one every two hours. Says Daryl Reading of Gowrie: "It makes you mad. We're good at what we do, but we still can't make a living...