Word: rural
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ARUSHA, Tanzania — As I prepared to live in rural Tanzania for eight weeks, I knew not to have particularly high expectations about the food I would encounter there. Two weeks of orientation seemed to prove me right—we were served the same beef stew, which had more bones in it than actual meat, every single night. Sometimes we hard-working volunteers had to subsist on only makande for lunch, a stew of maize and beans. Needless to say, I was less than satisfied...
...fault lines are opening up everywhere you look. Liberals are worried that Obama is going squishy on including a strong, government-run "public option" among the health-care choices available to Americans. Conservatives are warning that the legislation won't do enough to control health costs. Rural lawmakers are complaining that proposed Medicare cuts will fall too hard on their states. The two sides of the abortion debate are tussling over whether the procedure should be covered under the plan. And those are just the arguments going on among Democrats...
...When July 6 arrived, every station carried the budget address, delivered by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. And the nation was in for quite a surprise. While Mukherjee did announce significant fiscal stimulus plans, expanding rural employment, and development programs, he did not mention any specific open-market reforms, such as raising foreign investment levels, divestment of public enterprise, or deficit reduction. After Mukherjee had signaled to the entire nation that he would follow through on these reforms, the speech was a major disappointment...
...many regions, companies are forced to go around the traditional banking system altogether by borrowing from other businesspeople or even loan sharks. This sort of informal banking, which has a long history in China, has become more popular as the economy slows, says Du Xiaoshan, deputy director of Rural Development Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "It's hard for small and rural businesses to get bank loans, so there's generally more informal lending happening," says Du. (Read "The Argument Over China's Economic Prospects Intensifies...
...Gained national notoriety after founding, in 1990, the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in the small shrimping village of Bayou La Batre, Ala. Benjamin said the idea for the clinic came after she spent three years working as a doctor in under-served areas for the National Health Services Corps...