Word: ruralization
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...other Democrats. A year later, Mark Warner ardently courted gun owners in heavily Republican Virginia--and cruised to victory in the Governor's race. In this year's excruciatingly close House and Senate elections, many of the hardest-fought races are in Southern and Western states and semi-rural congressional districts, which explains why national Democratic leaders are doing their best to stay away from the gun issue entirely. The idea of gun control is so out of favor that Handgun Control Inc., a leading lobby organization, changed its name last year to the Brady Campaign and Brady Center...
...past three days, he was unapologetic in his liberalism, in his caring and compassion and in his belief that the government’s role was to help the less fortunate. As he talked of welfare reform, single parents, union workers in the city and farmers in rural America, I always knew he spoke from the heart. Wellstone was king of the “good people” in Washington. He cared, and so should...
Evelyn M. Murray, Lenthall’s husband and owner of Atholl Brose Scottish Imports, says her clients come largely from rural areas and tend to be easily turned off by unruly loiterers...
...administrator who put me up in her dining room under the watchful gaze of stern family portraits. Kyrgyzstan's burgeoning homestay movement is a boon to both sides, bringing locals income and providing visitors with a cheap, clean bed and friendly faces. At another homestay in a more traditional rural area, where women wear head scarves and men white-felt hats, a whole evening was spent with a grandmother sighing over an outdated book entitled Kyrgyzstan: The Mode of Life is a Soviet One. Pioneered by the Shepherd's Life network(www.tourism.elcat.kg) in the central Naryn region, the homestay concept...
...When I think of my husband, I have in my mind a little boy in a rural country of China,” she said. “It was during the Cultural Revolution, when he was about nine-years-old. As a little Red Guard, he was sent by his teacher to the street to capture farmers who were selling their produce, which was prohibited that time...