Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frusztajer discovered the opposite while he was living in a rural Japanese village, one-and-a-half hours north of Tokyo. He describes the area he lived in for four months as "Japan's equivalent of New Jersey...
...contras have attacked targets ranging from government cooperative farms to rural stores and power pylons. But as in the past, they have hurt their cause by failing to distinguish between civilian and military targets. There were recent reports of contras burning down a small community's church- sponsored health clinic. Notes a State Department official: "As the degree of fighting increases, the number of human-rights-violations stories increases too." The contras inside Nicaragua are being supplied by clandestine airdrops, a dangerous technique. But if the resupply holds up and the money continues to flow, the contras are expected...
...Webster prepares for his Senate hearings, he is likely to have little time for his fiercely competitive tennis games or his weekends on the farm in rural Missouri. A widower with three grown children, Webster seldom drinks anything stronger than soda pop and is a devout Christian Scientist. A history and poetry buff, he is fond of quoting Lincoln and John Kennedy, a choice that displays admirable bipartisanship, if nothing else...
Complicated but not fussy mixtures are the Portuguese specialty. This is crowd-pleasing stuff served in iron cauldrons and enormous pottery bowls. Each dish is preceded by absolutely fresh clean-white loaves of bread which bring to mind images of swarthy rural folk feasting and guffawing. The Soup of the Day, which accompanies the dinner specials, is perfect for sopping up with this delicious bread...
...lifetime Silvano Otieno rose from rural tribal roots to become one of Kenya's top criminal lawyers. But since the thoroughly westernized Otieno's death last December at the age of 55, the question of his burial site has rocked Kenya's legal system, stirred tribal outrage, and raised thorny feminist issues...