Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jozef Slisz, the leader of Rural Solidarity and deputy speaker of the Senate, was among other opposition officials who met with Jaruzelski. He said the President explained he could not allow Solidarity to form a government, because several of Poland's East bloc neighbors would "look at this askance." Specifically, Jaruzelski mentioned East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union...
...author, who now lives in rural Montana and is a consulting geologist, says little about his writing career. He reveals that he is a poetic observer of the earth's surface as well as its depths, ever alert to the sounds of silence -- a cricket, a katydid, a car passing in the distance, the hum of a freezer. Crisp winter walks during his college days at Utah State made him feel like "the president of snow...
Brigadier General Mariano Baccay, the government's regional commander, described the massacre as the "worst ever" perpetrated by the N.P.A. against civilians. While it may have been a desperate measure by the guerrillas, who have lost the military initiative in the rural south, officials in Manila fear that the N.P.A. may soon begin an assassination campaign in major Philippine cities...
...typical child has witnessed an estimated 200,000 acts of violence, including 33,000 murders. Inevitably, contend many experts, some youngsters will imitate the brutality in real life. In a 22-year study, researchers tracked the development of 875 third-graders from a rural community in New York. Among the discoveries: those who watched the greatest amount of violent television at the age of eight were the most likely to show aggressive behavior at 19 and later. About one-quarter of the students were considered violent at 30 -- they had been convicted of a crime, had multiple traffic violations...
Fishing in rural lakes is usually a contemplative pastime, but the black-bass tournament on Alabama's Lake Guntersville earlier this month seemed more like the Indy 500. Some 320 anglers set out in their boats at 5 a.m., battling the morning chill and 3-ft. waves in pursuit of fish and fortunes. The competitors were equipped with the latest in sonar and trolling motors, the better to pursue their wily prey. When the anglers returned to shore, crowds gasped in excitement as judges weighed the catch and flashed the results on a digital screen. The winner, Robert Byrd...