Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only every region of the country but every age group and almost every demographic voting bloc. Reagan captured most new voters as well as those for whom voting Democratic had been a lifelong tradition. He won most cities and towns, almost every suburb, and swamped his opponent in rural areas. Indeed, he won where few Republicans have ever won before...
...Iowa had opened when Congressman Tom Harkin made his successful run for a Senate seat. The Republicans were able to seize it as Jim Ross Lightfoot, 46, a conservative former radio broadcaster, defeated Democrat Jerry Fitzgerald, 43, a former state representative. Farm issues dominated the campaign in the rural area of cattle ranchers and wheat and corn growers. Reagan had visited the district to help Lightfoot...
Simon, an author and former editor of the Troy (Ill.) Tribune, has represented a tough, grungy rural district for a decade. A prolabor liberal, he put together the late, great Democratic coalition: he captured Chicago's blacks, ethnics and liberal whites overwhelmingly, and a majority of the rural quasi-Southerners downstate. He may have been helped by an uptick in the state unemployment rate (to 9.4%) announced last week...
...international leader of the non-aligned movement and the Commonwealth of Nations. We saw her haggard face as she knelt upon the ground examining the remains of the plain crash which had claimed the life of her son. We saw her at home, in jail, at conferences, at rural project inaugurations. We saw her everyday, in the newspaper, on the movie screens and more recently, as India made another step forward in telecommunications, on our television sets. One could even meet her on the lawns of I Safdarjung Road, her residence in New Delhi. Indira was a person...
...words are spoken by Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist in a rural English hospital, and they are directed to Alan Strang, his 17-year-old patient who, at the moment, is under hypnosis. Alan has been institutionalized after blinding six horses one night in the stable where he works on weekends. Equus is the imaginary horse god, the product of Alan's tangled mind and troubled childhood and it is Dysart's task to exorcise it from him. The question on which Peter Shaffer's play turns is, simply, does Dysart want...