Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week many U.A.W. members were bristling for a showdown. Said Jim Zsigo, 37, a machine operator in the Chevrolet component plant at Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland: "We can't have them taking all the jobs to Mexico, and we can't have all our jobs replaced by robots. I can't really afford a strike, but I've been saving. I'm good for about eight weeks." Rick Herman, 39, a dyemaker in the Parma plant, was psychologically ready to walk out. Said he: "I'm looking forward to a strike...
...exactly, although there were similarities. The church was in Richardson, a Dallas suburb, and the congregation (the place was packed) was white, black, Mexican, Oriental, well dressed and not. Small children stretched out on the benches and worked on coloring books. The women wore only faint touches of makeup. At 6 p.m., the temperature was still 108°. "I know it's hot in here," said the minister, standing before a huge gold cross, "but let's just worship the Lord and forget about...
...mysteriously armed with revolvers and automatic pistols, declared that starting Thursday morning they would kill one French passenger every hour until the French government agreed to release five Islamic fanatics in prison since 1980 for the attempted assassination of former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar in a Paris suburb...
Then, on Thursday, four heavily armed men claiming to be members of a leftist guerrilla group attempted to rob a bank in Soyapango, a working-class suburb of San Salvador, killing a security guard and taking 73 hostages. Police surrounded the bank, while Red Cross officials negotiated with the rebels. After nearly 23 tense hours, the guerrillas surrendered. The episode alarmed Salvadoran authorities: until recently, the rebels had rarely launched an attack so close to the capital...
...happiest woman in the world," declared Corinne Parpalaix, 22, last week after a civil court in the Paris suburb of Créteil awarded her possession of frozen sperm left in a sperm bank by her late husband Alain. In 1981 he deposited his sperm after learning that treatment for his testicular cancer could leave him sterile. He died last Christmas, two days after he and Corinne were married in a hospital ceremony. In February the young widow tried to recover the sperm from the bank in order to conceive her dead husband's child. The bank refused...