41.   In rural counties, the numbers are much higher.

42.   In some rural counties, opposition to converting private land to public ownership runs strong, in part because this takes property off tax rolls.

43.   In rural Arizona counties, judges run for office, but the governor appoints any vacancies or newly created positions.

44.   Intergroup is the only HMO serving seniors in rural counties, and it has trimmed its benefits.

45.   It divides several rural counties, which Wentworth thinks is unfair.

46.   James succeeded by expanding his margin of victory over Blount in rural counties, and by minimizing his losses in cities like Birmingham and Montgomery.

47.   It will start as a pilot program in a Detroit suburb, a poor Detroit neighborhood and four rural counties.

48.   Kansas, he noted, has many small rural counties and school districts.

49.   Leitrim is a rural county in the Republic of Ireland, which differs from Northern Ireland most obviously in that the roads are worse and the brogues less marked.

50.   Many rural counties continue to hollow out, especially in the Great Plains.