Word: ruralism
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...three centuries, the Quebecois -- descendants of France's attempt to plant a North American colony -- maintained a society that was rural, Roman Catholic and inward-looking. But in the 1960s, as Quebecois moved into business and the professions, Quebecois separatists raised their sights. They now control two parties of their own -- the Parti Quebecois, which contests (and sometimes wins) Quebec provincial elections, and the newer Bloc Quebecois, which holds seats in the national Parliament. French Canadians are intelligent and entrepreneurial. When it comes to politics, they're blowhards, endlessly recounting their frustrations, many of them imaginary. Compared with other minorities...
...army colleagues together and decided that when Mao died, they would arrest Jiang and her cohort. Kang died of cancer in December 1975, and Zhou a month later. When Mao finally died at 82 in September 1976, Ye clapped the venomous widow into prison and summoned Deng from his rural exile...
...hard to argue with McNealy on this score.Where the Worcester fans were rural males, theBoston fans are urban males. TheyB-12Michael F. KoehlerThe Blazers work to stop the powerfulThunder attack...
...Pesci is Vinny, an amateur New York lawyer who travels with his fiance to rural South Carolina to defend two alleged murderers. Someone has shot Jimmy Willis, and the local police believe this someone to be Vinny's cousin Bill Gambini (Ralph Macchio) and his college buddy Stan (Mitchell Whitfield). Some local eyewitnesses mistakenly identify them--in classic television sitcom fashion--effectively destroying their thus far innocent road trip to California...
Before his proposal, businesses shouldered the tax burden. Roemer says he attempted to shift the tax load from urban centers to rural areas and have large plantation and land owners share in the responsibility...