Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name is Mary. She is 34 years old and lives in a suburb of New York City. With her neatly tailored beige suit, pink designer blouse and necklace of seed pearls, she has the well-scrubbed preppie look of someone who has had a safe, comfortable life. When she begins to speak, the words seem strange, as if they belong to some other person...
...Ford Escorts moved unobtrusively down a quiet, tree-lined avenue in Restelo, an affluent suburb of Lisbon. One stopped outside the driveway of the Turkish embassy; the other turned sharply, burst through the compound's 3-ft.-high iron gates and jolted to a halt. An armed man advanced on the embassy, wounded a police sentry in a burst of fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide...
...electronics industry," says Roger Smith, Silicon Valley's president. His bank, with headquarters in a San Jose industrial building, will offer services like equipment financing for new companies. High Tech National Bank will go after the microchip money brought home by electronics entrepreneurs to the Silicon Valley suburb Los Gatos (pop. 28,000). Local residents include Steven Jobs, 28, chairman of Apple Computer, who is worth an estimated $200 million...
After bicycling from Detroit on Saturday, the students have been travelling through Ohio for the past two days, stopping overnight in Toledo and Cleveland. Last night found the group in Shaker Heights, a large Cleveland suburb with at least a few people willing to devote both time and money to the "Right for Life" cause...
...white 1983 Mercedes 230E embellishes the stucco house is one of the most imposing in the driveway. The burgeoning Tokyo suburb of Ichikawa. More than 100,000 books line the walls of the library. Two male secretaries are at work in the study. Yet Hisashi Inoue is not happy. "It's terrible to be a bestselling writer," he complains. One of the terrors is familiar to any Westerner: the Japanese version of the IRS. The novelist has sold 12 million copies of his 56 books, making him one of the most successful writers in the world today. Nonetheless...