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1 Proposals for major Government cuts contained in the McCarthy report will decimate rural life, farmers claimed today.
2 It can rip urban communities apart; it can decimate rural populations; it can be, to paraphrase Euripides, more than the heart can bear.
3 That was a good premise for the drama of it. Q: Do you have trepidations about how much AIDS has decimated rural Africa?
4 Sir, -I am not sure why Verona Murphy thinks that the drink-drivinglaws have decimated rural life (Home News, November 20th).
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