Word: buckhead
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...high as that sounds, the sum the Reids paid for their home is not all that unusual in the U.S. of 1987. In suburban developments from Newport Beach in California to West Bloomfield near Detroit and from North Stamford, Conn., to the Buckhead area of Atlanta, luxury houses that start at $500,000 and run well over $1 million are sprouting in unprecedented numbers. Reason: the unusually long five-year-old economic expansion and the record-breaking stock market advance have rapidly swelled the ranks of the rich. Says Ray Gentile, a builder on Long Island's North Shore...