Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cramped, maddening domesticity endured by Alexander Portnoy: "Our lower- middle-class neighborhood of houses and shops -- a few square miles of tree-lined streets at the corner of the city bordering on residential Hillside and semi-industrial Irvington -- was as safe and peaceful a haven for me as his rural community would have been for an Indiana farm...
Michael Lambert, a Ph.D candidate in Anthropology, will leave on October 31 for the West African country of Senegal, where he will investigate the effects of seasonal, educational and labor migration between rural villages and urban centers on the Boulouf-Diola people of the Basse-Casamance region...
Geographically, the Republicans can count on winning the Dallas-Fort Worth area, rural West Texas and the Panhandle. Democrats hope to split Houston with the G.O.P. and roll up a huge margin in South Texas. If so, the campaign will be decided in the small towns of central and East Texas, home to the bulk of the state's 2 million swing voters, a quarter of the total. But there is a demographic codicil: the Democratic margin in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley depends heavily on retaining the loyalty of Hispanic voters, who are being assiduously courted by Bush. "Name...
...failure of the computerized tabulating system. It's more than a computer problem, because ((the P.R.I.)) had a computer system, and it worked very well. There were more than 54,000 casillas (voting booths), some of them in rural areas. Also, because of the tremendous flood of voters, some casillas did not close at 6 p.m. but stayed open ((legally)) in order to allow those in line to vote...
Morton's The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales is seemingly calculated to rouse the audience from their seats directly into a protest rally. The framing story is the trial of a brutal, ignorant police chief in rural Texas for the killing of a young Chicano suspected of burglary. Morton's other plays mingle reality and daffy fantasy, human characters and cartoonish stereotypes in order to teach -- or preach -- the Hispanic history of the Americas. Says he: "I've seen the glaring difference between the First World and the Third World, and it weighs heavy on my soul...