Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dispersed throughout 11 public service organizations in Appalachia, the students have tried to help the groups improve literacy, health and the environment in the region, said Karl Hill, the organizer of the internship program...
...undergraduates, including three from Harvard, passed up the swinging Georgetown nightspots this summer for less glamorous locales in America's impoverished, rural Appalachia region...
South Africa is not some extension of Appalachia where American youth can do social work. It is a country where the schoolchildren and teachers in Black schools are on strike, and where education is under direct and indirect state control. It is a situation in which you have to take sides. Let us hope that Dan Steiner and Alan Heimert when they go to South Africa later on this month do not lose Harvard or themselves in the crossfire...
...years ago, Dukakis said, "Massachusetts was called the 'New Appalachia.' Now it's a gratifying success story," the governor said, noting the state's phenomenally low 4 percent unemployment rate and the elimination of the massive state budget deficit...
...them, and even if it is used (improperly, we believe) by others to justify a further decline in social spending, the program would still put young people to invaluable use rejuvenating inner cities, cleaning and preserving federal lands, and feeding, teaching, and aiding disadvantaged citizens from Watts to Appalachia...