Word: split-level
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...district was $67,680 last year, compared to $43,014 in New York City and an average salary of about $35,000 across the country. Because of his approximately $7,500 tax bill, he says, he has had to postpone replacing the plumbing in the bathrooms of his "modest, split-level home...
...growing economy helps everybody to a more abundant life has been gospel for three decades. But Roach's opinion better describes today's reality: the closer one looks at the three-year-old recovery, the more it appears to be unlike any in recent memory. It is a split-level surge in which mass layoffs are continuing side by side with new hiring and heavy overtime; high-income people are making more money, while many others are working at worse jobs for lower wages than a few years ago and still others have seen pay raises, if any, fall behind...
Nancy Archer is the goofy, exaggerated incarnation of a character we know well: she is every Victorian heroine anguished by her own passivity, every sit-com wife stuck in a split-level with a Michelob-loving numbskull. She is the woman who has had enough -- Thelma or Louise, or Lorena Bobbitt minus a kitchen knife...
...design an all-solar neighborhood of 30 working-class houses and eight commercial buildings in Gardner, Massachusetts, that opened in 1986. Sponsored by New England Electric Systems utility company, the project offers a glimpse of the day when solar-run homes could become as common as split-level houses. Solar power already helps heat and light more than 100,000 U.S. houses. And this week Real Goods is sponsoring a tour of homes from Maine to California that have all their energy needs met by sun, wind or water power...
...Hanna and Joseph Barbera strained their imaginations (ever so slightly) to picture the family of the future, it was a pretty simple exercise. Take your basic nuclear family: the modern, shop-happy housewife, the corporate-drone dad, two rambunctious kids and a dog; house them in a spacy-looking split-level; power their car with atomic energy; equip their home with a robot maid; and, whammo, you had it -- a space-age Cleaver family named The Jetsons...