Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...within the bounds of the snail-paced speed limit. By a narrow margin of 217 to 206, the House voted to allow state governments to increase the limit to 65 m.p.h. on most interstate highways. The Senate followed suit by a clear majority. The new law applies specifically to rural areas, but nearly 80% of the planned 43,489 miles of the interstate system will be affected...
...miles of straight stretch, and sometimes you traverse that entire 60 miles and you only pass two cars. My friends, on the way to talk to 20 people in Montana, I run over 15 jackrabbits." Republican Dick Cheney of Wyoming echoed his neighbor: "Our Western rural interstates are uncrowded, straight and safe...
...fast, partner, was the reply of Democrat James Howard of New Jersey. Howard, chairman of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee, has been fighting to preserve the old speed limit to preserve lives. The nation's highest rural fatality rates, he maintained, are out West: Nevada is first, followed by Utah, Alaska, Arizona and Montana. "The No. 1 cause ((of deaths)) is not drinking and driving," said Howard. "The No. 1 cause is speed...
...says Kendall. "No, that could not happen. There are so many black workers here that Johannesburg would have a black majority." Louw adds, "It would be an unambiguous handover of the rich areas to blacks. The only places there could be allwhite cantons would be in sparsely populated rural areas...
Meanwhile, thirst is up. Soviet officials revealed last week that 200,000 people were prosecuted in 1986 for illegally making their own booze. Soviet moonshining has traditionally been confined largely to rural folks, but last year 40% of the offenders were urban dwellers. Half were under 30, and many were housewives concocting homemade vodka, or samogon, to pay for household expenses. Worse, some 200 thirsty comrades have died from drinking alcohol substitutes like antifreeze...