Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stethoscopes are a gesture of our respect for the real strides Nicargus has made in public health and particularly rural outreach," said Camilla D. Potter, who helped organize the event...
...still too early to determine the permanence of the metamorphosis created by Deng's reforms over the past five years, and where it will end. The only indisputable indicators are economic: an average annual increase in agricultural production of 7.9% since 1978; a spurt in rural per capita income, from $67 a year in 1978 to $155 in 1983; a 23% expansion in foreign trade last year, to a record $49.7 billion. Chinese construction is booming: nearly half the peasant housing in the countryside has been erected since...
...organized labor and rapid movement of money--is unlikely to come to China in the foreseeable future. Yet one of the great maxims of classical Marxism, that market forces are somehow the source of wickedness, has been discarded. Last October, on the heels of impressive economic gains in the rural areas, the Communist Party's central committee plenum announced reforms as well for the urban economy in which market forces will play a decisive role. Instead of a market economy, Peking's theoreticians now talk of a "socialist commodity economy." Only the names have been changed...
...drama was played against a background chorus of anguish from farmers. Rural politicians, representatives of agriculture organizations and even individual growers and dairymen wandered through the Capitol to plead for emergency assistance. The 105-member South Dakota legislature voted itself a special $95,000 appropriation to fly to Washington en masse for a day of lobbying. In Ames, Iowa, 15,000 people, many wearing bright green FARM CRISIS ribbons, jammed a midweek protest rally at Iowa State University's Hilton Coliseum carrying signs reading FARMS, NOT ARMS and NO BILL, NO TILL. Back East, eight farm-state Senators...
...degree of reproductive freedom is a priority that almost every contributer harps upon. In China, feminists are ambivalent about the "one family, one child" policy which, while giving urban women the freedom to compete with men in the work force, has led to an increase in female infanticide in rural areas where men are considered more valuable than women...