Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision resulted primarily from the Administration's belated recognition of battlefield realities in Cambodia and political realities on Capitol Hill. Over the past six months, the Khmer Rouge forces, an estimated 30,000 strong, have been pursuing a rural-based strategy similar to the one that enabled them to encircle and take the capital city of Phnom Penh in 1975. While the Khmer Rouge are stronger militarily than at any other time since they were chased from power by Vietnam 11 years ago, some well-informed analysts do not believe the gains made during this rainy season represent a dramatic...
Days of Thunder has focused new attention on an old sport that is undergoing rapid transformation. Once a passion solely for the male tank-top, tattoo and feed-cap set in the rural South, stock-car racing is now going nationwide and upscale. This year more than 3 million fans in 16 states from Florida to Michigan to California will attend 29 races staged by the National Association of Stock-Car Auto Racing. That is more spectators per event than is averaged by pro football and major league baseball combined. Nearly 40% of audience members are women, up from...
Once confined to the back roads of the rural South, the sport is going upscale and national, drawing in millions of fans -- and dollars...
...heyday fifty years ago when, according to my mother, it boasted the largest barn in the valley. Now, only the first floor is occupied by tenants who come and go. I'll live there for four weeks while I photograph the people I meet and learn about the rural valley where my mother was born and raised...
...This rural part of central Pennsylvania is one of the few places I've visited where a strong social fabric continues to bind a community together. Women walk their children through town and say "hi" to everyone they meet. Men gather in the evening on a porch and talk. Children ride their bicycles up and down the dirt roads. Though I can not accept their values, I envy their sense of community. And I can thank them for letting me--briefly--into their lives...