Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brother Matthew locked the gate behind me, and I was enclosed in the four walls of my new freedom." Thus in his bestselling autobiography did Thomas Merton describe the moment he arrived to become a postulant at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in rural Kentucky. It was the Advent season of 1941, three days after Pearl Harbor. By eerie coincidence, Dec. 10 was also the date of Merton's mysterious 1968 death. As the anniversary of his death and religious birth came round again this Christmas season, Merton disciples were enjoying a host of new material on the modern...
Like many other rural congregations, the Kinmundy United Methodist Church (congregation: 170) in southern Illinois has long relied on the collection plate for its modest income. But all that changed this year when a tract of farm land, which had been willed to the church nearly 30 years ago, began spewing oil at the rate of 165 bbl. a day and producing $10,000 royalty checks for the church every month. Since then the membership has been arguing over God's intentions for the money...
...deficit with most of that savings being carved out of already beleaguered programs. Among those services hardest hit are Medicare, which faces a $19 billion cut over the next three years, financial aid for college students, which will be frozen at current levels, and many programs for urban and rural development now likely cancelled altogether...
...year will be killed. 10 million additional bbl. of oil consumed and taxpayers" costs raised by $ 10 million. The council committee advises an offsetting safety improvement for any waiver of the 55 m.p.h. limit: "For example, a state might be permitted to increase the speed limit on its rural interstate routes if it enacted a mandatory safety belt...
...Senate for 34 years, and Governor of Vermont (1937-1941), who after five decades in politics still referred to himself as a New England land farmer; in Montpelier, Vt. A blunt-spoken maverick whose liberal views often nettled his party, Aiken led efforts to bring electricity to rural America, to build the St. Lawrence Seaway and to create the nationwide food-stamp program. His campaigns were noted for their thrift. Expenses often totaled less than $20-for stamps to send "thank you" letters to people who had, unasked, circulated his reelection petitions. Aiken became famous for suggesting in 1966 that...