Critics argue that large-scale foreclosures would be devastating to already depressed rural areas.

The bill would forgive student loans and provide tax credit for home purchasers in depressed rural areas and small towns.

Initiatives such as the biomass plan or the new legislation on biofuels are awaited with particular interest in depressed rural areas and those experiencing specific difficulties.

Bypassing the major cities, Mr. Bush will speak to timber workers in depressed rural areas where there has been a virtual civil war over the forests.

Technoserve provides cooperative development and jobs in depressed rural areas of Africa, South America and Central Europe.

They argue that fox hunting is necessary to control a pest that kills livestock and that the ban will end thousands of jobs in already depressed rural areas.

The Prince has spoken exclusively about his motivation for setting up the new fund, which is expected to raise millions of pounds for depressed rural areas over the coming years.

We have lived in New York City, Los Angeles, suburban Massachusetts and for the last several years in a severely depressed rural area of northeastern Connecticut.

The core units of the chain are 55 former Heck's discount stores in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky in what are mostly economically depressed rural areas.

That, in turn, would prolong the life of small, insecure landfills that do not meet modern standards, and deprive depressed rural areas of a chance to increase their own tax revenues.

This time, the majority of new arrivals were migrants from the "extraordinarily depressed rural areas" of Appalachia, who would soon account for more than a third of Columbus' rising population.

Mr. Keefe said the strong growth has been the result mostly of new migrants moving to the Twin Cities from depressed rural areas and from other states, in search of jobs.

Lynch recognized Congress' opportunity to "not only create, in very small increments, a considerable new clean renewable resource but to stimulate a fledgling industry that can bring jobs to depressed rural areas throughout the West."

Until she fell ill last March, Dr. Perkins received patients in her modest home, which served as an office, and continued to make housecalls in the depressed rural area of southern Albany County.

Petitions, Postcards and Letters So far, 11 lucky towns, all of them in economically depressed rural areas, have made the correction department's list of acceptable prison sites, and more are hoping to do so.

A goodly number of the Americans are rootless high school graduates, especially from the Midwest and depressed rural areas, who may have done some baby-sitting and view their child-care jobs as brief interludes until they find more appealing employment.

Glenmary's work is in depressed rural areas of the United States, primarily in the Appalachian Mountains, where they distribute food, clothing, and books to needy persons, and assist in providing medical care, job training and tutoring.

Majority in Sao Paulo Affected This migration was stimulated in the 1960's and 1970's by neglect of depressed rural areas and by rapid industrial growth, but the military government that ruled Brazil between 1964 and 1985 gave a low priority to low-cost housing.

The credit card issuer MBNA will double the size of its Irish operations over the next five years at a cost of 32 million euros ($32.2 million) and with the support of the Irish government, expanding its presence with 500 new jobs in County Leitrim, a depressed rural area.

He said in the interview that his background as a Southern Governor gave him a special perspective on the issue, on the need to "establish a dialogue across racial lines in this country," to rebuild the cities and the depressed rural areas, to work on re-instilling values and "literally re-connect millions of Americans to the society in which we live."