Many governments use Disadvantaged area as a designation for various "problem" areas. In the UK "disadvantaged area" is a term used for an area where there is a need "to stimulate the physical, economic and social regeneration" by attracting development and encouraging the purchase of residential and commercial properties in special provisions for Stamp Tax relief and for areas where health is an issue. In the United States The "Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act" allowed qualifying hospitals to employ temporary foreign workers as Registered Nurses (RNs).
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“Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.”
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