Word: rural
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...problem is not that simple. Evidence has surfaced of sabotage aimed at discrediting the local democrats: conservative-controlled rural regions have been holding back produce from Leningrad, and some train cars crammed with scarce goods have been left standing for months without being unloaded. But the 382-member city council deserves some of the blame for the economic mess. Even the most ardent reformers are growing exasperated with inexperienced, often incompetent deputies, who spend more time squabbling over plans to confiscate Communist property and change the name of the city back to St. Petersburg than debating bread-and-butter issues...
...reason is that the movement is young, and the meaning of environmentalism is changing in subtle and profound ways. Not so long ago, "old thinking" had the environment tucked away in parks and rural areas, an amenity for the relatively affluent to appreciate on weekends. Implicit in this attitude was the idea that ecology was irrelevant to businessmen and policymakers concerned with the real issues of the day and that mankind could somehow get along without focusing on the environment...
Citing the first case she ever argued--the defense of a 35-year-old Black man accused of killing a white painter in rural Lafayette, Ala.--Friedman said that race often dominates capital cases in the South...
...deems squishy -- continued to be handy foils for the legislator known as "Senator No." For a time, though, Helms' campaign seemed to lack the hard edge of his previous crusades. His early TV spots attacking Gantt as too liberal on issues such as abortion and gay rights fired up rural "Jessecrats" but not moderates and fence-sitters. Gantt raised enough money to match Helms' TV blitz in the final weeks and to gain an eight-point lead in mid-October polls...
Despite their problems, mainstream black Christian groups still exhibit plenty of vitality. Even struggling rural Southern churches, hard hit by northward migration, are doggedly holding on with the help of part-time pastors and energetic lay leaders. One hopeful sign in the North and the West is that blacks are no longer drifting into white churches when they move up the social scale. Says Atlanta's John Hurst Adams, senior bishop of the A.M.E. Church: "We are not buying the integration route. We never have and never will. We seek an inclusive society that need not be integrated but values...