Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Getting the food to the hungry is made more difficult by inadequate port facilities, poor or nonexistent roads and insufficient planes and trucks to transport food to rural areas. But the biggest block in the pipeline is civil strife. The government is battling 23 rebel groups and factions in every part of the country. The two strongest insurgent armies are in Tigre and Eritrea, the provinces hit hardest by the drought. Eritrea has been in rebellion against the government ever since it was annexed by Ethiopia in 1962, and a guerrilla movement began building in Tigre...
...builders. A sleepy village is born. In time it gives way to county developers. Where once there were bulls there are now bulldozers, and in their wake come tract housing, aboveground swimming pools and backyard basketball courts. One holdout remains, surviving on his houseboat, a poignant reminder of the rural past. The Provensens' flat, colorful paintings are nostalgic for the old times without putting down the present. They imply that however the land alters, one basic need endures: a good place for children to play, read and dream...
...world's leading wine critics is preparing for a hard day's work. On the cluttered wet bar of his home office in rural Parkton, Md., nine stubby, stemless glasses, narrower at the top than at the bottom, are lined up. Behind them stand nine uncorked bottles of California red wine, their labels obscured by foil wraps. The critic rinses the glasses with wine from three of the bottles. Then he pours an inch or so of red liquid from the first bottle into the first glass and holds it up to the light. "Good color," he says, "but that...
Through it all, the families of both hostages and captives held vigils near the prisons in an uneasy symbiosis of suffering. The tension between the two groups seemed most acute in Oakdale, a small rural town of 7,200. On Thanksgiving Day, a group of Cuban women made a peace offering to a congregation of hostage families who had gathered in a church hall: a baked turkey adorned with a Cuban and an American flag. Though a few polite hugs * were exchanged, the gesture failed to relieve the resentment and anxiety. "I'll tell you one thing," muttered a sympathizer...
POOR CHARLIE. His terminally ill wife is languishing in a hospital at home, in England. He is too depressed and, given his timid nature, too frightened to talk to anyone. But he finds himself dropped off by his friend, Sgt. "Froggy" LeSueur, at a boarding house in rural Georgia, facing the prospect of three days under the scrutiny of gawking hicks...