• Her family had a rural house atop a small hill above a lake, surrounded by forest.

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  • Some rural-district House members, from both parties, have been worried about closures in their areas.

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  • The White House Rural Council was established by an Executive Order of President Obama in June 2011.

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  • Yesterday, I attended a meeting of the White House Rural Council, which focused on our coordinated response to historic drought conditions that are affecting communities across Rural America.

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  • President Obama ended today's White House Rural Economic Forum feeling energized by the ideas he heard all day from small business owners, students, entrepreneurs, ranchers, farmers and clean energy companies.

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  • On Tuesday, August 7, 2012, President Obama convened his White House Rural Council for one of a continuing series of policy meetings to review Executive Branch response actions and to develop additional policy initiatives to assist drought-stricken Americans.

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  • Secondly, the Council of Economic Advisers, the White House Rural Council, and the Department of Agriculture released a new report, which notes progress that has been made in the agricultural economy, and details steps the Obama administration has taken to help strengthen the farm economy and support jobs and growth in rural America.

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  • Yesterday, the White House Rural Council hosted a Native American Food and Agriculture Roundtable Discussion, bringing together tribal leaders and experts on Native American agricultural economic development with Administration officials from the White House Domestic Policy Council, National Economic Council, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Council on Environmental Quality, and federal agency partners including the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, Treasury, and the Small Business Administration.

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  • One hundred and forty dogs have been rescued from "deplorable conditions" at a house in rural County Leitrim.

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  • But since the Senate has an even stronger rural bias than the House and requires a supermajority of 60 to avoid filibusters, things could get even messier.

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  • At the moment second home owners in England get a 50% discount on second properties which often tend to be located in rural areas forcing up house prices for local people.

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  • Sandy was four and I, Philip, wasn't yet born when in March 1932, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's own first child, a boy whose arrival twenty months earlier had been an occasion for national rejoicing, was kidnapped from his family's secluded new house in rural Hopewell, New Jersey.

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  • The LDP, which gave more detail on the need for higher consumption taxes in its manifesto, found the idea gained little momentum, said Yoshimasa Hayashi, a politician in the party who campaigned with upper-house candidates in rural areas.

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  • Another solution is relocating nurses from central clinics to rural villages and having them make house calls.

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  • He spent the following months fighting extradition while under house arrest in a small rural town in England.

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  • In rural villages in Lesotho, the biggest brick house often belongs not to the chief, but to a miner.

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  • She told the BBC she has a large, rural constituency and that before she had a house there she stayed in hotels or rented.

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  • When her mother inherits an old house with some eccentric tenants in rural Tennessee, Penny is happy as can be because she appears to be living inside an exciting adventure story at last.

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  • Mortgaging rural land or even selling one's own house to non-villagers is banned.

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  • In Cooper's last job he drew a salary to live in a 7, 800-square-foot house on 40 acres in semi-rural Iowa.

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  • Separated from her second husband, with a 22-year-old son in his final year of college, she splits her time between a Manhattan town house and a cabin she rents in rural Montana.

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  • Two classical musicians, Jan and Eva Rosenberg (Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann), have abandoned their careers to live in a stone house on a remote island, in rural, romantic refuge from a military conflict on the mainland.

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  • Cox's Moroccan cliff-top house and garden, located in a quiet rural area of Tangier, is a surprising combination of modest and spectacular.

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  • The Treehotel is the unintended legacy of a 2008 Swedish documentary called "Tradalskaren" (The Tree Lover) that tells the story of three men who build a tree house near Harads in an attempt to rediscover their rural roots after years of living in a city.

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  • That group includes Grassley's fellow Iowan Rep. Bruce Braley, who is part of a group of House Democrats fighting for a fix in disparities in how Medicare reimburses rural and urban health care providers.

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  • While the scientific opinions of an obscure legislator from rural Georgia may seem of little import, he is a member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and therefore has an outsized influence over how we invest in the future.

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  • Eleven years later, the Hua family leave their French Concession town house almost every Saturday to head to their weekend home in Zhaoxiang, a rural suburban township 22 miles west of Shanghai's city center, in the district of Qingpu.

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  • On Wednesday, in the rural outskirts of Bandung, a highlands city of more than two million people, police besieged a house being rented by nonlocal Indonesians.

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