In the end, Mr Emanuel got the longer day, adding 2.5 years to each child's schooling between kindergarten and high school, but the unions kept their seniority-based pay system.He closed 50 schools last year: largely bad, half-empty ones in depopulated neighbourhoods.
Property values had crashed, as the depopulated land vastly exceeded tenants.
It came in the LDP's traditional strongholds: the depopulated rural districts with a disproportionate share of the seats.
It has a desert of its own, and many depopulated villages, some without piped water at all.
Russia's suicidal bent could eventually threaten its disintegration, if its vast, depopulated territory became ungovernable.
Environmentalists say the plan would hurt farmers right up the Ebro, besides wetlands and wildlife in its delta.The conflict is not just about water; it is part of a wider debate between Spain's depopulated interior and the crowded coast.
He lost a lot of support in the city's poorer areas after he closed 47 schools last year, largely underperforming ones in depopulated neighbourhoods on Chicago's west and south side.
These rural places have often become so depopulated, especially in the Great Plains, that they cannot contribute much to further urban growth in the American West.Since 1987 we have argued that large near-deserted parts of the Great Plains would eventually have to pursue an environmental path we call "the Buffalo Commons".
Many Japanese are not opposed to such measures, but they rate them far below pocketbook concerns: a shortage of decent jobs for the young; stagnant wages; rising health-care costs; uncertain pensions; and swathes of the depopulated countryside missing out on the economic recovery that has taken hold in Tokyo and other big cities.
Depopulated and apparently similar enough to Afghanistan and Iraq, Colorado's plains have become the perfect training ground for driving around in Humvees and flying combat aeroplanes at low altitudes.
Yet wages are stagnant, while the more depopulated parts of Japan are feeling little of the recovery.
