Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banker, William Blech, who wrote novels himself under the pseudonym of "William Blake." He died in 1968 and a few years later Stead returned to Australia. She now lives with her brother, a labor union official, in an extension to a small brick house in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville...
...turn his listeners on much. His style was reassuring but plodding and predictable. Sometimes defending his record, sometimes sounding almost as anti-Washington as Jimmy Carter, the President often seemed to say the right thing the wrong way. Earlier, at a shopping center in a Detroit suburb, the audience started to drift off as soon as he began talking...
Slowly but surely, you learn the details of the job. You will go to a city or suburb in the Southwest and sell two dictionaries and another set of books door-to-door...
Three sites are leading contenders for the VW plant: a former Westinghouse appliance factory in Columbus, Ohio, a federal tank plant in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park and a partially completed Chrysler Corp. assembly plant at New Stanton, Pa. Whichever site Volkswagen chooses, it will soon have company. Now that it is moving into U.S. manufacturing, Japanese car makers are almost certain to follow...
Just why they singled out William F. Niehous, general manager of Owens-Illinois' Venezuelan operation, is unclear. But on the evening of Feb. 27, seven armed guerrillas broke into the American glass-company executive's home in an affluent suburb of Caracas. While his wife and a maid watched helplessly, Niehous, 44, was injected with a soporific and carried into the night. At first it was expected that the ultra-leftist terrorists, like the majority of their counterparts in Uruguay and Argentina, would simply demand that a huge ransom be paid by the company...