Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During a campaign trip to rural Iowa, he outlined "a major initiative to assist farmers trying to cope with debt burdens." It was an emergency aid scheme of the kind Democrats are wont to suggest, involving a stretched-out repayment schedule for Government loans and federal guarantees of private credit. The package could cost as much as $1.3 billion...
Held in contempt of court, Robinson was arrested, then released and given a hero's welcome at his office. The sheriff trades heavily on his good ole boy charm, stumping hard in rural areas and bellowing, "The Republicans can call me a cowboy, or they can call me Sue, but they are fixin' to get a tiger in their tails like they've never had before...
...certain jobs in private industry has largely ended. Black unions have been legalized. Most, though not all, companies have a policy of equal pay for equal work. However, what is true in cities like Johannesburg is not necessarily true in more conservative areas. Petty apartheid still flourishes in the rural bastions of the Afrikaners and in the English redoubts around Durban, where rules governing whites-only beaches remain intact...
Wilson's "message" is made all the more heavy handed by the absence of a plausible plot, or truly three-dimensional characters. The characters are all assembled in a mission in rural New Mexico and are held together by an even flimsier pretext--an explosion in a nearby uranium mine. The quarantine provides the characters with just enough time--24 hours--to sort out their problems and to remind us in no uncertain terms of the health hazards the indian population faces daily...
...there are about 368,000 people voting age in the area to the 1900 census. While liberals hold away in the rural suburbs in the district's left-leaning mid-section, President Reagan's appeal to the blue-collar, Catholic vote--which is centered in Lowell and Lawrence--worked here in 1980. Reagan carried the district 44 to 40 percent over former President Jimmy Carter, a margin of 11,000 votes and two percentage points better than the state total...