Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that gave Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts nearly $1 billion and 40 million acres of land. Hensley now heads the influential development arm of the Northwest Alaska Native Association (NANA), one of 13 regional corporations created by the act to manage Alaskan native assets. Under his tenure, NANA has built rural schools, offices, rescue stations and even owns a reindeer herd of 4,200 head to provide meat to northwest natives. Hensley, who speaks English, Russian and Inupiaq (an Eskimo language in western Alaska), lost a bid for his state's sole House seat in 1974, but is often introduced...
Keeping the countryside poor, however, is no longer an option for Bangkok. Kriangsak declared 1979 as the "year of the farmer" and launched an ambitious $2 billion rural reform program to be renewed annually. Said Kriangsak: "Thai farmers will eventually be standing proud and tall in the coming decade...
Such underground violence is the dread of many urbanites, but this particular example took place last week in rural New Hampshire. The participants were 26 New York City transit police who went to Dartmouth College for 14 days of total immersion in Spanish. Of the city's 2,900 subway police, only 135 speak Spanish -in a city with 2.6 million Hispanics...
...their vacation for the trip to Dartmouth without their wives and children. After 14 days of nonstop classes, plus evenings devoted to Spanish movies, music and Spanish bingo games, some of the New Yorkers found their enthusiasm for sylvan New England dwindling. I've had enough of rural America," said Officer David Weaver, 36. Added Officer Marino Cesarini, 33: "It's like living in a plastic bubble up here. They may have only one murder in 100 years...
...median annual income was less than $100. In 1979 it may reach about $1,500. A recent study by the World Bank concluded that South Korea has been by far the most effective country in the developing world in equably sharing its growing wealth between urban and rural areas. The annual growth rate since 1962 has averaged 9.3%, allowing South Korea to transform itself into a semi-industrialized state that may soon leave the ranks of the underdeveloped nations. Last year exports totaled $12 billion, of which $4 billion went to the U.S. Some 1,500 U.S. companies...