Word: suburb
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Minnesota: Bloomington Project. A $47 million replacement of a bridge over the Minnesota River will link the area south of the river with the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington. The present structure, a temporary span with a six-year anticipated life, was put up in 1978. It has been underwater three times after storms. Highway-bill contribution: $16 million...
Though whites are excitedly gearing up for national elections on May 6, the occasion has prompted only yawns from the black majority of South Africans. Since they are not allowed to vote, the Sowetan, the country's largest black daily, published in the Johannesburg suburb of Soweto, decided to hold an election of its own. Several times a week it carries a printed ballot asking readers to list their top ten candidates to lead the country...
THROUGHOUT SWIMMING, Gray fires attack after attack at America and its values, He sarcastically describes the good neighbors he has in the murderous gangsters upstairs. He compares his suburb, Krumville, to New York City, which he had moved to because he "always wanted to live on a small island somewhere between the US and Europe." He describes his expectation of "the perfect high" on fantastic Indian marijuana and then tells us it made him sick, anxious and self-destructive...
...They'll strap a Steadicam to anything that moves, and the results are sometimes extraordinary. Even if some of their visual jokes are stolen--like the Mad Biker blowing up bunnies with a hand grenade--they remain surprising and funny. The sequence in which H.I. is chased through a suburb by the police, a heaving armed albino convenience store clerk, and a pack of dogs deserves a special Oscar for Gratuitous Tension in a Feature Film...
...York City found that the number of teenage suicides increases after television news segments or dramatic programs on the phenomenon. Events last week supported that conclusion. The day after the bodies were discovered in Bergenfield, two teenage girls were found dead under similar circumstances in Alsip, Ill., a ! small suburb (pop. 17,000) south of Chicago. The bodies of Karen Logan, 17, and her friend Nancy Grannan, 19, were discovered in Grannan's car, which was idling in a closed garage attached to the Logan home. Logan clutched a stuffed animal and a rose, Grannan held an album...