Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great to be around women who have goalsin life," says Merculieff of her classmates atHarvard. "My personal friends [at home] give uphope, accept the fact they can't be leaders in thenative community, and I just don't agree withthat." Merculieff founded and directed a statewideagency for stranded rural Alaskans in Anchoragewhich provides crime prevention training andemergency aid for victims...
...well beyond what Americans have come to expect. A foretaste came last week when Budget Director James Miller produced a hit list of programs to be slashed next year. On it were items that the Administration has long thought cuttable. Among them: the Job Corps, the Small Business Administration, rural housing loans and the Economic Development Administration. Estimated savings: far less than what might be necessary for fiscal 1987 alone...
...government adopted a cautious attitude toward the new superunion. Indeed, declaring that the "revolutionary climate in South Africa is fast losing momentum," State President P.W. Botha lifted the five-month-old state of emergency in eight of the 38 areas where it had been imposed. Those areas were mostly rural settlements and had been for the most part untouched by racial unrest, which has claimed more than 900 victims this year. Privately, officials made it clear that unless COSATU leaders control their radicalism, they too could be subjected to detentions and other restrictions...
Barton, who will spend most of her time in small, rural areas, said she was undeterred by the current political turmoil in the Pacific country...
...first frames are unpeopled, long roving views of a tranquil Polish countryside through which runs a small river overhung with drooping trees. It is the Narew river. The scene is Chelmno, a rural Polish region in which, 40 years ago, more than 400,000 Jews were exterminated...