Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just four years after Kamal and Nazir Ahmad created the Overseas Development Network (ODN), the group has chapters at 40 colleges and more than 600 student volunteers. ODN has raised over $300,000 to sponsor, among other things, internship programs in Appalachia, India and Bangladesh...
...lead in building high-speed computers for scientists and engineers. But as the company grew and prospered during the 1970s, the founder's interests began to wander toward wide-ranging and public-spirited ventures that diverted money and managerial attention. The company built factories in low-income regions like Appalachia, tried to develop a technique for farming in rural Alaska, and ventured into insurance and consumer finance, among dozens of other pursuits...
...residents of central Appalachia, a heavily mined, coal-rich region, have generally responded favorably to the students presence, Hill said. However, he added, it takes a period of adjustment for the locals to feel comfortable around the students, especially ones from Harvard...
...people of Appalachia have a long history of being exploited by Yankees fromthe North," Hill said. "But Yankees--and Bostonand Harvard is as Yankee as you can get--onoccasion encounter a justifiable hesitancy fromthe local community...
...Appalachia and soon-to-be-startedBangladesh internship programs are the first ODNprojects to directly supervise on-site studentpublic service work. In the past, ODN has only putstudents in touch with the groups...