Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weapons were brutal: pipe bombs set inside harmless-looking packages that exploded when moved. The first victim, Steven Christensen, 31, a Salt Lake City businessman and Mormon bishop, was killed outside his office on Oct. 15, 1985. A few hours later in a nearby suburb, a second bomb took the life of Kathleen Sheets, 50, the wife of J. Gary Sheets, a former partner of Christensen...
Byerly's. In the 19 years since Don Byerly, now 47, opened his first store in the Minneapolis suburb of Golden Valley, he has almost never publicly advertised a product or price. "We spend the advertising money on service," he explains. The payoff has been impressive. There are seven Byerly's outlets in the Minneapolis area, and an eighth is under construction. Sales for the chain reached $135 million last year, and are expected to climb to $150 million in 1987. Byerly analyzes his success this way: "The only reason people will come back to our store is because...
...they're run." Each store is managed semi-independently by a single boss, who tailors the contents to neighborhood needs with little overseeing from top management. Company-wide, Byerly's has 2,100 employees, but only five work in what the proprietor jokingly calls "world headquarters" in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina...
Other names have become almost as symbolic as Howard Beach: for example, the Citadel, the Charleston, S.C., military academy where a black cadet was subjected to racist hazing; or Jefferson Parish, the New Orleans suburb where the sheriff (a Chinese American) made a suggestion (later retracted after a public outcry) that blacks walking in white neighborhoods might be stopped for questioning...
...alienated both from the old country of Eastern Europe that spawned his immigrant parents and from the pleasant diaspora, non-tenemant nest that American Jews have created for themselves. The novel's homebase is this world. Nathan lives in New York City and his brother in South Orange, a suburb of Newark, where the two brothers grew up. Roth has written about these places before. His first great novel, Goodbye, Columbus, takes place in Irvington, New Jersey, a city that borders on Newark. Roth himself grew up in Newark and Irvington...