Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's a pretty stupid thing to say. My upper middle class enclave just happens to be 15 minutes closer to downtown than the ones in the suburbs. Ah, but herein lies' "attitude." Admittedly, I think big cities should impose commuter taxes to force rich parasites, who enjoy the docile rurified advantages of suburban existence, to pay for their share of may city's public services. Of course in my mind, the city life offers many advantages over life in the suburbs, but that's just a personal valuation, and I have no business foisting it on anyone else...
...example, the pilot school at Cambridge Ringe and Latin High Schoo, which puts 200 students in closer contact with teachers and counselors, lost a guidanmce counselor, said Koocher...
...match was much closer than the scoreboard indicated, as the seasoned Bears escaped with some tight, three-set victories over a Crimson team which was playing only its third match of the season...
...firepower in the desert strip between the Tigris River and the Huwaiza marshes. Thousands of Iranian and Iraqi troops had been killed during the week-long assault; even so, there was no indication that the latest flare- up in the 4 1/2-year-old gulf war had brought the conflict any closer to a solution...
...that some of the perennial complainers, like farmers and retired people, are willing to take their lumps if groups such as corporations and universities take theirs. But they also want Reagan to cut defense and get a bit more revenue out of the wealthy. The contenders creep a little closer together...