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...earners, more than half have no children; thus two of the compelling arguments for suburban living, acceptable schools and affordable housing, are becoming increasingly irrelevant for a sizable segment of the population. Moreover, says Rouse, "the old dream of suburbia ?the house with a fence and the backyard barbecue???is fading. Young people increasingly tend to look at the suburbs as sterile and uninteresting...
There he confronts the sourest and most apprehensive national mood to hang over a Fourth of July holiday in years. For millions of citizens penned at home by exasperating gasoline shortages, the only celebration will be a backyard barbecue???if the sporadic strikes by independent truckers protesting the scarcity and soaring price of diesel fuel do not cause new shortages at the supermarkets. Gas lines in Eastern cities are getting longer, despite the spread of odd-even sales restrictions, and the Tokyo agreement to limit petroleum imports obviously will do nothing to shorten them, since it is a scarcity...
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