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  • n  urban areas in New England and Midwest characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles)

  • How do you transform a dying rustbelt city into a vibrant modern metropolis? Rod Usher finds out.
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  • Wu Yi in Bloomberg
    We strongly recommend foreign investment take an active part in the government's plan to revitalize the northeast rustbelt region and to develop central and western China's economy,Vice Premier Wu Yi said last year.
  • Eric Church in MLive.com
    The music is very rustbelt, guy-driven, hard-working and honest,said Church, who penned the song "The World Needs a Drink" for Terri Clark. "I think the people there are those kinds of people. People ask me all the time, 'What kind...
  • Fraser Kemp in guardian.co.uk
    Fraser Kemp, the Labour election organiser, said: "It helps to give you an idea what people in an area or street might be like. We used to call them ABs: now the marketing people have come up with new phrases, like urban warriors or rustbelt...

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