Word: ruralism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tired of the rat race? Now comes a chance to revitalize yourself and a rural community at the same time. Residents of Minnesota's Koochiching County, whose biggest town is International Falls (pop. 10,000), are trying to boost their sagging population by giving away up to 40 acres to each brave soul who takes up residence there. To qualify, applicants must be financially self-sufficient and bring a business or a useful skill with them. The county has received 27 applications, four of which have been accepted...
...comparison, even the once despised government regime is winning some popular support as it gains militarily against the rebels. With a view toward future elections, the government has initiated a series of rural land reforms, and its economic liberalizations have been bringing a measure of prosperity to + this benighted land. With hopes rising that Viet Nam's soldiers will eventually be gone, perhaps peace, too, will visit tortured Kampuchea before long...
There are 7.6 million people in the U.S. whose dwelling places are deemed "substandard," a euphemism that fails to evoke adequately the living conditions in scanty rural shotgun shacks or the inhabited shells of buildings in urban areas. These quarters are commonly without heat and plumbing, and in some cases are in such disrepair that the term shelter is misapplied. But worse than the deficient housing, Fuller laments, is the world's indifference to it. "People of goodwill, especially people of faith, should find it hard to rest in peace," he admonishes...
...Fuller founded an organization he said would "make shelter a matter of conscience," that would provide the poor with "simple, decent, affordable housing." He called his enterprise Habitat for Humanity. The idea of a house-building ministry was inspired by Koinonia Farm, an integrated Christian community in a poor, rural, south Georgia area strewn with crude shacks and tumbledown homes...
Working with unusual urgency, experts at a British army ordnance laboratory in Kent took only days to determine the cause of the crash. From wreckage recovered near the devastated rural town of Lockerbie, they examined a ripped suitcase, fabric from some passenger seats and fragments from a metal bin in which checked luggage was packed and then rolled into the cargo hold of the Pan Am 747 at London's Heathrow Airport. Two pieces of the container's framework were pitted and showed other signs that a "high-performance plastic explosive" had erupted near them. Scotland Yard's antiterrorism branch...