Word: suburb
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...reform legislator in a machine-dominated state, Simon found life in Springfield lonely, until a few like-minded colleagues were elected in 1956. One of them was Jeanne Hurley, a liberal Democratic lawyer from the Chicago suburb of Wilmette. "Long before Paul and I fell in love," she recalls, "we were working together as colleagues." Simon proposed on their second date. This being the 1950s, Hurley reconciled herself to giving up her legislative seat, though even today one can hear hints of regret over abandoning her dream of becoming a judge. Their respective religions were a more serious problem...
...about a cloak of covert CIA operations. Among the most startling: Casey had arranged with Saudi Arabia to assassinate Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, leader of the militant Lebanese Shi'ite faction known as Hizballah. The 1985 car bombing, supposedly financed by the Saudis, killed 80 people in a Beirut suburb but left Fadlallah unharmed. These and other disclosures drew a barrage of denials, as well as cries from the intelligence community that telling such provocative tales, true or false, harms U.S. spying capabilities. Woodward's account also raised fresh questions about Congress's ability to control a "rogue" CIA director...
Just a few years ago that encounter in the Soviet Flight Control Center at Kaliningrad, a suburb 15 miles northeast of Moscow, would have been unthinkable. In the closed world of the Soviet space program, the most impressive launches were rarely announced in advance for fear of failure. Even then, the barest details were released afterward -- and only if the mission went just as planned. These days that characteristic secrecy seems to have evaporated, replaced with a confidence bolstered by the dawning international recognition that Soviet achievements in space are fast outstripping those...
...autocratic and contributed to flagging morale. In 1980 the bank's board ousted him. Abboud soon became president of Occidental, only to resign in 1984 after policy clashes with Chairman Armand Hammer. Since then, Abboud has run his own investment firm near his home in the posh Chicago suburb of Barrington. His reputation for toughness lingers, however, and Abboud seems to revel in it. "People think the A in A. Robert Abboud stands for abrasive," he has said. (Actually, it stands for Alfred...
...burgeoning demand for princely quarters has caused house prices to surge in many exclusive towns, especially on the East and West coasts. The average sale price of a home in Bradbury, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, has in the past year gone from $459,000 to $610,000, according to a survey by the nationwide broker network of RELO, a Chicago-based relocation service. In Greenwich, Conn., northeast of Manhattan, the average cost has skyrocketed incredibly, from $467,500 to $1.2 million since the summer of 1986. Prices are not rising that fast in heartland suburbs, but almost every region...