Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was hope these [applicants] would [be from] rural or inner city areas, where guidance counseling was sparse and they don't have computerized or other admissions services," he said...
Song recalls growing up in mostly rural areaswhere there will very few Asians. Song says thateven at such a young age, she felt a need torepresent her race well...
...with 8 in. before clouds let up; bursting drainage systems shot manhole covers skyward like missiles. Whole towns were isolated. One, Guerneville, 65 miles north of San Francisco, was closed to nonresidents as the Russian River rose toward the rooftops, and 465 citizens were airlifted to higher ground. A rural community called Rio Linda, a satellite of Sacramento, was so badly betrayed by a sandy bed called Dry Creek that a survivor named Rose Marie Simmons could only gasp, "It's real sad, real sad, looking at the place where you've been living, gone." Homes became islands...
...talk about the Republican-led campaign to end federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, they came not to praise high-toned PBS shows like Masterpiece Theatre and Live From Lincoln Center. Instead speaker after speaker trooped up to the microphone to tell stories of poor viewers in rural areas for whom PBS is a treasured companion; of fire fighters and police officers who take classes via local public-TV outlets; of children whose lives would be made joyless if such familiar PBS friends as Big Bird, Barney and Mister Rogers were taken away. Without federal funds, said Randall Feldman...
...president Richard Carlson seems to be relying on the old mom-and-apple- pie approach. The stations most vulnerable to the loss of federal funding, he points out, are small outlets in rural areas that get a relatively large portion of their money from the CPB. "If they pull out the federal funds," says Carlson, "it will probably cause the small stations to crash and burn ... Public broadcasting in small communities touches the life of every person there. We are going to win this at the grass-roots level." Spoken like a true man of the people...