Word: ruralization
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...movement and leader of one of the biggest political parties, wants to scrap the flat tax and use a more conventional progressive system that taxes the rich at higher rates than the less well-off. "Our system is too simple," he says. "We have too much inequality." Arguing that rural areas, old people and young families have lost out, he recently began calling for massive wage increases for all. Savisaar's reformist opponents, including those in the same coalition government, denounce his call as irresponsible demagoguery; they worry about Estonian competitiveness being harmed if wages outstrip productivity. The polarization grew...
Along a rundown track on the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca, a small city in rural Transylvania, a construction site teems with laborers sawing wood, hammering nails and measuring angles. The tools are basic and the building plans simple, but the workers[an error occurred while processing this directive] are not what you might expect; it's a band of executives hailing from corporate heavies Whirlpool and Ikea, who've traveled to Romania from Italy and Sweden. The well-heeled workforce comes courtesy of Habitat for Humanity, a 30-year-old American-based charity that recruits volunteers to address the problem...
...dexterity last week, Chávez seemed only to enhance his reputation for gratuitous Bush baiting. After Chávez's speech at the General Assembly, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, called the performance "a comic-strip approach to international affairs." A product of Venezuela's llanos, or rural plains, Chávez patterns his style after the straight-talking llaneros (cowboys) he grew up with. (One of his favorite American films is Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider.) Chávez is fond of calling Bush "Mister Danger," a reference to a quintessential Ugly American in Venezuela's best-known novel...
...fatwa stating that it was un-Islamic for Sania Mirza, India's most famous tennis player and a Muslim, to wear sleeveless tops or short skirts on court. Mirza simply dismissed the ruling; indeed, many, if not most, urban Indian Muslims do not take fatwas seriously. However, in rural communities, a well-respected mufti's fatwa - on issues ranging from marriage to health to women's rights - can carry considerable influence. India's Muslim leaders announced that they will soon create a new body that will monitor the passing of fatwas in the country, in a bid to preserve that...
...RURAL SOUTH The life span of low-income black female residents is 13 years shorter than that of Asian-American women...