Word: ruralization
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...While unique, Jenkins' experience mirrored the bleak existence that North Koreans have lived through. Ordinary citizens are similarly terrorized and watched over by "leaders" directed by the ruling Workers' Party. Hunger and deprivation are the norm. Speaking in his barely intelligible rural Carolina drawl, Jenkins says North Korean society is "backwards." He seems, even now, like a man on the verge of collapse, his voice cracking as he recalls painful memories. He frequently breaks down in tears...
...SUSPENDED. CHEN JIULIN, 43, chief executive of China Aviation Oil (CAO); after the company revealed a loss of $550 million on trading in oil derivatives, the largest Asian trading scandal since Barings Bank collapsed in 1995; in Singapore. Chen, who was raised in rural China in a house with no running water, rose to become one of Singapore's highest paid executives after he turned around CAO, the Singapore-listed subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned company, which was given a monopoly on China's jet-fuel imports in 2001. CAO notified its Beijing parent of its growing loss...
...does, it will be done by example only. Reid is not an orator or a crusader. In our conversation, he was artfully vague about his legislative plans and reluctant to offer prescriptions for resuscitating the party other than the mild suggestion that Democrats should pay more attention to rural America. Indeed, a good example of the Reid style can be found in his handling of that hottest of issues, abortion. He opposes it except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake. But he has leavened that position with vehement support for contraception...
...these positions as unchangeably ignorant bigots, and same-sex advocacy organizations often unwittingly do just that. For instance, the Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Nov. 3 press release emphasized that marriage amendments failed in urban areas, even if they were eventually passed on the strength of rural votes. The Task Force dangerously implies that rural bumpkins could not be dissuaded from their prejudice, and gives them up for lost. Harvard students were wont to take this position after the election in every conceivable forum, such as when Former Harvard Professor Brian C.W. Palmer...
Liberals who want to insert more “Economic Self Interest” into rural America might point out that many Bush voters don’t know how bad their President is for their bottom line. But if they don’t know, it may be because they don’t care. I haven’t been able to find a breakdown of political knowledge by political priorities, but I’ll bet you that those people who think Bush loves poor people aren’t the ones who vote based...