Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, it wasn't as if I needed more impetus to win. In my mind, I was going to exonerate Mr. Riggs by beating Ms. Porter just 15 miles from the site of his loss--in Missouri City, a suburb of Houston...
...brokers, who almost never set foot in towns with more than 25,000 people, has enjoyed solid success in outposts from Spearfish, S. Dak., to Broken Bow, Neb., that such big-time competitors as Dean Witter Reynolds and Merrill Lynch have virtually ignored. Based in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, Jones ranks just 43rd among brokerage firms in total capital ($82.5 million), but no investment company is represented in more places. Jones has 1,227 offices in 37 states, covering most of the country except the Northeast. Second-ranking Dean Witter has about 660 branches...
Buried within this autobiography is the portrait of a family that belies easy ethnic stereotypes. By the time Dukakis was born, in 1933 (three years after his brother Stelian), the family was living comfortably in the prosperous Boston suburb of Brookline. The Dukakises were, by all accounts, demanding parents. Sandy Bakalar, Mike Dukakis' high school girlfriend, remembers Panos as "scary." She recalls, "He had high standards for the boys, strict high standards. They had a very structured life at home. They had specific responsibilities...
...cavernous store in the Washington suburb of Dale City, Va., thousands of shoppers lined up last week with box-laden carts at a battery of check-out counters. A supermarket perhaps? Or a Toys "R" Us store? No, these bargain hunters were buying furniture. The boxes of all shapes and sizes contained build-it-yourself kits for assembling everything from chairs to cabinets. It may seem an odd way to furnish a house, but not to the throngs of customers who were grabbing, hauling and finally staggering out of the store...
...arranging military help for the Nicaraguan contras when Congress has forbidden it? If a man murders someone, may the state kill the killer in retribution? May government employees be forced to have their urine tested to search for the trace of drugs? May American Nazis march in an Illinois suburb that is home to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust? May a man be arrested for performing a homosexual act in his own home? Is it right to promote a woman ahead of an equally qualified man in order to redress past inequities toward women...