Word: rural
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...number is a figure of considerable value, real as well as symbolic. The money, Beijing announced on Nov. 9, would go mainly to new infrastructure, homes, schools and clinics, especially in the country's poorer regions. Taken together with the recent alleviation of taxes plus changes to the rural-land law that will allow farmers to lease their land and free them to work elsewhere, the initiatives amount to what Jing Ulrich, the head of JP Morgan's China equities business, calls "a New Deal with Chinese characteristics...
...cared for her. In the post-election e-mail, Soetoro-Ng writes of the sometimes conflicting emotions surrounding her grandmother's death and brother's success - and of the need to unplug for a while with her husband Konrad and their 4-year-old daughter Suhaila on Oahu's rural North Shore. She writes that she has been flooded with e-mail messages "of both congratulation and condolence .... There's a wide swatch of emotion cutting through me, sometimes swirling, never simple ... a briny mixture of elation, sadness, determination, regret, pride, hope, fatigue. You can imagine...
...several hundred years. We are not as culturally and economically unified a group as non-blacks would like to believe: Some of us are rich and others are poor, some of us are of mixed race, some of us come from other countries, some of us live in the rural South while others live in the urban North. The thing that has really united us is a sense of being shut out from certain opportunities. No matter where we lived or how we behaved, we were all bound by the knowledge that there were things we couldn?...
...French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard thinks Alliot-Marie is right to be concerned - especially given similarities between the accused anarchist group and Action Directe, which carried out the unit's robberies, assassinations, and machine gunning attacks. "Like Action Directe, these anarchists set themselves up in out-of-the-way, rural communities where no one would suspect them of anything more troubling than perhaps a general ecologist lifestyle," Jacquard says. "Like Action Directe, these anarchists used that cover for their plots, and fled back under cover once operations were over. But like Action Directe, that escalation of activity - and its success...
...have significant implications. With up to 2.5 million migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta forecast to lose their jobs in the coming months as the worldwide economic crunch deepens and many already flooding back home to their villages, some political analysts have expressed concern that social unrest in rural areas could worsen...