Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...engineers. But as the company grew and prospered during the 1970s, the founder's interests began to wander toward wide-ranging and public-spirited ventures that diverted money and managerial attention. The company built factories in low-income regions like Appalachia, tried to develop a technique for farming in rural Alaska, and ventured into insurance and consumer finance, among dozens of other pursuits...
...found "virtually no progress in per-capita income over the past two decades" in countries south of the Sahara Desert. Worse yet, said the report, sub-Saharan Africa now produces less food per person than it did in 1960, despite the tens of billions of aid dollars spent on rural development. Among reasons for this dismal record: ceaseless political strife, wrongheaded economic policies and a harsh and erratic climate...
...other is to search for a situation where racism presented itself in all its ugliness. "Then racism becomes a visible issue with clearly moral implications. But such occurrences are increasingly rare, for the KKK has little influence. The racism which plagues Black Americans today cannot be found in rural Georgia. It's more subtle but also more widespread...
...billion people and hence Hu's fall. Moreover, Mao's call for the spiritual transformation of his subjects into selfless collectivists flew in the face of human nature and Chinese reality. Deng's agricultural reforms, by contrast, have unleashed peasant energies, generated massive increases in outputs and doubled rural living standards...
...apart for more than a month at a time," says Roth. The author and the actress are, in some ways, an odd match; she needs people, other actors, crews, audiences for her work just as much as he requires isolation for his. So when Bloom is in rural Connecticut, her enforced idleness leads to a good deal of teasing banter. He: "There is no social life around here." She (to a visitor): "That's what he keeps telling me." He: "Nobody goes to parties. Hey, I got you a telephone, didn...