Word: rural
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Following that, Morgan opened the ACLU's Atlanta-based Southern Regional Office, which continues today as one of the nation's foremost defenders of voting rights. He notably argued Reynolds v. Sims, a landmark Supreme Court case that ended the rural South's dominance in state politics, and his office challenged the exclusion of blacks from juries and represented black death-row inmates convicted by all-white panels. "The jury box and the ballot box," he said, "are the only places where citizens can tell their government what to do and the government has to listen...
...Huang has mined never-before-researched financial records on rural China to bolster his thesis that the major gains in overall income growth and entrepreneurial activity were made in the 1980s. Interestingly, this happened without massive infrastructure: at the time, China lagged behind India in terms of paved roads and railways...
...After the 1989 Tiananmen leadership purge, when Jiang Zemin and Li Peng took over from more liberal leaders, the reforms championed in the 1980s by a wave of largely rural entrepreneurs were stalled, and officials sought to reassert authority. In this "great reversal," Beijing's Xiushui Market, a thriving shopping area popular with tourists, was effectively expropriated by the city. The entrepreneurial founder of Kelon, China's most successful refrigerator maker, had his company seized in a backdoor takeover by local officials who then ran it into the ground. Land grabs by officials intent on real estate development soared. Rural...
...Ominously, Huang contends that productivity growth in China has collapsed. So, too, has personal-income growth. Meanwhile, the paucity of attention given to rural incomes, and the stripping away of educational and health-care services for the rural sector, suggest that the future China might not resemble South Korea, where the private sector has steadily grown in importance, but Latin America...
...With the island's identity shifting so dramatically, it can be hard to know if you're getting the "real" Majorca. Even the agriturismos - farmhouses converted to rustic hotels in the 1980s - increasingly style themselves as "rural retreats," complete with spas, plasma TVs and low-fat exfoliants...