Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that elaborate-and sometimes cruel-attention to the subject of children in the past presupposed one thing: their inevitability. The great changes in attitudes toward children today may revolve around three factors: 1) Whereas children in earlier, rural settings were economically valuable, needed for their labor, today they are a painfully expensive proposition (according to one estimate, the average middle-class family spends $100,000 to raise a child); 2) Children are no longer considered a necessary and inevitable part of marriage; and 3) For reasons of feminism and/or sheer economic need, more women than ever before are working...
...Kill a Mockingbird. You all read it in high school. The screenplay is a good adaptation of Harper Lee's story of racial prejudice and growing up in the rural South. The trial is effectively handled, as is the kumquat scene in which one of the kids, dressed up like a vegetable, is pursued by meanies who don't like her father defending a black man). Gregory Peck is better than he's ever been, before or after, as the slow, humble, and wise Atticus Finch. The kids are marvelous...
...citizens in a number of ways. It could, for example, relax trade restrictions on goods with high labor costs. It could also give direct financial support to Mexican-run programs like PIDER, which has been phenomenally successful in creating jobs and improving living conditions in the poorest rural areas, which are the main source of illegal immigrants...
...guerrilla bases across the border in Zambia, killing some 1,500 people who they claimed were guerrillas and who Nkomo claimed were mostly innocent civilians. This time the Rhodesian reaction was equally swift: Rhodesian jets whistled down on several guerrilla bases in southern Zambia, bombing and rocketing the primitive rural camps. Rhodesia termed the raids successful, but what effect they will have on the war is another matter. The Patriotic Front forces of Nkomo and Robert Mugabe are now in control of large areas of the Rhodesian bush. Besides reserve forces in neighboring countries, the Patriotic Front has an estimated...
...past the fast organizers stressed rural development but they broadened the program this year to include health needs...