Word: rural
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...White House that the President's image would suffer. "This is a powder keg," said an official privately. "Somebody is going to read racism into every word you say on this subject. You don't want to do this." While the racial card appeals to some blue-collar and rural whites, it obviously offends many blacks. It also conflicts with the two-year effort by Bush and the departing G.O.P. chairman, Lee Atwater, to woo black voters. Further, the moderate faction agrees with political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, who says that "some upscale white suburban voters...
...after 29 years in Los Angeles, working mostly as shipping supervisor for the Automobile Club of Southern California. But in a deeper sense, part of the South's appeal to its black emigrants is the strange intimacy that has always existed between the races in the region's rural culture. Their homecoming is partly an illumination of the old saying that in the South you can get close as long as you don't get too high, and in the North, you can get high as long as you don't get too close. "Here they recognize that...
...Amazon have been burned or cut down by developers building towns, ranchers raising cattle, companies going after timber and settlers trying to grow crops. Mendes was among those forest dwellers who realized that their way of life was slowly being snuffed out. So in 1975, he organized a rural workers' union. To stop the deforestation, union members and their families formed human blockades around areas scheduled to be cleared. These Gandhiesque acts, called empates, helped save thousands of acres but also made Mendes unpopular with landowners and local officials...
...what all the adverse reactions are going to be," says Welch. "I don't believe you'd find 5% of the medical community who use that scientific training." Welch argues that permitting psychologists to prescribe drugs would help make up for the serious shortages of qualified psychiatrists in the rural U.S. and many state hospitals...
Voila, the microcar. For about a decade, this urban motorist's dream has been available to thousands of car owners in rural France. In the late 1970s, another era of spiraling oil costs and Middle East tension, a handful of automakers developed midget voitures sans permis (no-license cars) to meet the needs of older consumers in a countryside poorly served by public transportation. Now, as metropolitan streets clog with traffic, savvy businessmen, fashion models and young professionals have seized upon the VSP as a practical, low-hassle alternative to conventional cars for darting around France's major cities...