Word: rural
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With nine tribes, 11 official languages and the gulf in lifestyle and education between rural and township dwellers, there is no one political opinion, political party or spokesperson who can presume to represent Black South Africans...
Pantanella's worries are echoed by thousands of public university students across the state. From the urban campus of UMass/Boston to the rural seclusion of North Adams State College, students are showing their concern by organizing, and registering to vote...
Mathers, 66, has seen the land ravaged by the plow, the water sucked from the aquifers and wasted, the oil and mining industries nose-dive, and the children of the plains rush for the rural exits. He was in the Montana legislature for 20 years...
With the nation's big cities ridden by crime, smog and traffic snarls, Americans must be fleeing to the serenity of the countryside, right? Wrong. Preliminary statistics from the 1990 census indicate that over the past decade the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s was reversed. Rural areas may have lost as many as 1.4 million people, far more than demographers had predicted. By contrast, metropolitan areas along the California and Florida coasts have grown sharply...
...last week the Census Bureau completed its preliminary count for 1990, which shows that the country is draining people and wealth into the South and West, depleting rural areas and weakening the urban redoubts of the Northeast and Midwest. Bush's bright hopes for gathering more Republican strength in swelling Florida, Texas and California in the election just two months distant are now also tied to the shifting sands of the Middle East. Few modern Presidents have had a more difficult equation to balance. So far, Bush's balancing act has been masterly...