11.   The forest has provided jobs for thousands of loggers and sawmill workers in an otherwise depressed region.

12.   The depreciation of currencies in economically depressed regions has worked to provide the U.S. economy with imports at much cheaper prices than before.

13.   The miners are paid well in the depressed region, but they have not been covered by life insurance.

14.   Hardline separatists want complete self-determination but the government wants to pump money into the economically depressed region and speed up its development.

15.   Many migrated from depressed regions where they worked on coffee and cotton estates.

16.   Northern France, a depressed industrial region with high unemployment, has become a breeding ground for the ideas of the extreme-right, anti-immigrant National Front.

17.   Relatives say they sought jobs with the SLA, the prime employer, in order to feed their families in an economically depressed region.

18.   There was little compassion, however, for the producers who have kept this otherwise depressed region afloat and are now being driven out of business.

19.   They say a failure rate of around five per cent of recipients is acceptable -- especially since many grants went to businesses in depressed economic regions with high unemployment.

20.   Yeltsin also will present a federal development plan for the economically depressed region, aides said.