Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Federal agents are also checking a link between Thornton and David Lee Williams, 35, of Atlanta, who died with 15 other sky divers two weeks ago when his plane stalled and plunged to the ground in rural Jenkinsburg, Ga. The plane's wing tanks were spiked with sugar, indicating sabotage. Thornton and Williams knew each other, and authorities speculate that they skimmed a cocaine shipment from Colombian drug suppliers. After Thornton's death, Williams became a target for revenge. His fellow sky divers, according to this theory, were just innocent bystanders...
...next Pac-man, but the hottest thing going right now in certain rural areas of 21 states is a coin-operated vending machine that dispenses live bait to fishermen, and the force behind it is a supersalesman from Des Moines who found God in a federal penitentiary. The machine is called Vend-A-Bait, and, as one Texas distributor put it, "It's one great moneymakin' sucker." So, for that matter, is Vend-A-Bait Mogul Glenn McClintic; he drives a car longer than most people's memory...
...competence at The New Yorker eventually bored him. In 1938, he and Katharine moved to a 40-acre farm in North Brooklin, on the Maine seacoast. Ross was flabbergasted by the desertion of his most valuable player: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." Farming and rural life enchanted White, although he wrote Thurber in 1938, "I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens." He kept tending to both, writing a monthly column called "One Man's Meat" for Harper's magazine between 1938 and 1943. He continued to contribute to The New Yorker...
...most persistent critic, Chen Yun, 80. Chen remains an advocate of Soviet-style central planning and frequently cites numerous recent incidents of corruption, overproduction and economic dislocation to bolster his case for a restricted reform program. In last week's speech he suggested that Deng's rural reforms, which allow peasants considerable economic freedom, could lead them to stop growing food and turn to more lucrative industrial endeavors, like making tools, furniture, clothing or even traditional handicrafts. Chen also criticized the moderate growth rates envisaged by the new five-year plan and the regime's reliance on market forces...
Conservatives fought the referendum as "antifamily" and "antimarriage." One opponent warned on television that should the marriage-rights measure become law, "the courts would be swamped with harrowing divorce proceedings." The status quo was backed by a majority of voters in twelve of the country's 26 cantons, including rural Appenzell, where women are still denied the right to vote on local issues. Among disappointed supporters of the old order was a Roman Catholic priest from Lucerne, who complained, "It all proves that old family virtues no longer count...