Word: rural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elected in 1966 after a Democratic split, Agnew, now 49, quickly gained a reputation as a competent, if not brilliant Governor. With the help of a newly apportioned Democratic legislature, released for the first time from rural domination, he pushed through a number of progressive measures. His accomplishments gained added luster when his record was contrasted with the mediocre one of his Democratic predecessor and the putative program of his segregationist opponent, the bumbling George Mahoney. More money was put into much-needed state services and state administration was modernized. With experience gained during four years as executive of Baltimore...
...Corps, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Work-Study Program, Adult Basic Education, Rural Loan Program, Migrant Worker Assistance, Employment and Investment Incentives, Work Experience Program, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and the Community Action Program, which set up Head Start, Upward Bound, Legal Services and Health Service Centers...
...revolutionary people now advancing with big strides." They admitted that not the Red Guards but "the workers, peasants and soldiers were the main force" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and in proletarian education. Worst of all, "Red Guards in many places expressed their determination to go to the rural areas, border areas, factories, mines and basic units in order to integrate themselves with the workers and peasants." That, in the current lexicon of China, is the Maoist version of exile to Siberia...
President Jomo Kenyatta has lately sought to accelerate that trend with a vigorous drive for "Africanization." He has refused to issue work permits to non-Africans when blacks can perform the same job, ruled that certain rural businesses be operated by natives only. Kenyatta has also put pressure on big foreign-run companies to step up their management-training programs for black employees. Kenya's Labor Minister Eliud Ngala Mwendwa last month warned white and Asian businessmen that unless they train more blacks to fill management positions, they "will be seriously embarrassed and may even be forced...
Still, whether offering hall trees ("Money won't buy more stylish goods") or watches ("Almost given away"), Sears appealed to a buying public that was then largely rural and firmly bound by the Puritan ethic: waste was sinful, and so were fripperies. But it was also an epoch when ordinary folks were beginning to yearn for "nice things" and even a few luxuries-if they were cheap enough and guaranteed to be durable. It was an enjoyment simply to peruse the bargains offered in men's toupees and nerve pills, mowing machines and dog-powered churns, foot scrapers...