"The empowerment zone is doing everything it can to help them."

Until she calls a meeting, the empowerment zone will receive no government support.

The building is in an economic empowerment zone that he helped create during his first term.

President Clinton's budget calls for a second round of empowerment zones.

But defenders of the empowerment zone say the current changes will be best for the local economy over the long run.

It was not clear where the three rural empowerment zones would be.

Areas in the empowerment zone would receive funds for job training, drug treatment and other social services.

"I'm going to do it with or without the empowerment zone," he said.

"It's the kind of thing the empowerment zone should be doing," he said.

Even with all the conditions and reservations, board members said that the empowerment zone had come back to life.