51.   There were several such businesses in and around Syracuse, an economically depressed area for which the Bennetts once served as economic engine and beacon of hope.

52.   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.

53.   This is a depressed area because a lot of the jobs are gone and a lot of the people have moved away.

54.   They just redistribute money, the argument goes, and in a depressed area there is not a lot of cash to redistribute.

55.   Under Cisneros, the department designated the first group of empowerment zones to give tax breaks to businesses in depressed urban areas.

56.   Youngstown Rep. Jim Traficant introduces a bill that would force NASA to establish new facilities in economically depressed areas like Youngstown.

57.   After the Sierra Club endorsement at the Statehouse, Corzine visited an abandoned factory site in a depressed area of the city.

58.   As usual, the crowd included several thousand mostly middle-age people and elderly, veterans and people from depressed rural areas.

59.   As a member of the Clinton administration, Rubin often championed economic development initiatives for depressed areas, and he said he was excited about his new job.

60.   Hanegbi said that a return of the villagers would help spark economic growth in the financially depressed area.