Word: suburb
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...court was considering an ordinance in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates that limits the sale of drug paraphernalia to those 18 or over and imposes a $150 licensing fee. A local head shop argued that the law was too unclear about which items are covered and was therefore unconstitutional. Nonsense, said Justice Thurgood Marshall, writing for the majority. The ordinance covers any item that "is designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs." That language is "sufficiently clear," said Marshall. The court did not rule on whether towns may ban head shops completely, but most...
...from behind and throw the contest into the doubles finals. Although the Crimson lost to the fifth-ranked Tigers, Seaver "kept us alive." Usher comments.... Usher also managed to keep himself alive during the tournament when he was confronted with a would-be assailant in the affluent Los Angeles suburb of Westwood one night. Approached from behind by a man who coveted the team's money in Usher's front left pocket, the tennis coach swung a quart-size bottle of V-8 juice and knocked the other man out cold. Although he field a complaint when the police arrived...
Meanwhile, an explosion and fire last week destroyed the house in the Paris suburb of Neauphle-le-Château from which the Ayatullah directed the Iranian revolution. The next morning police found an effigy of Khomeini hanging from a tree in the garden...
...admirable. Many writers have carved wombish little niches for themselves as "chroniclers"--so the "blurbistes" and reviewers call them--of some class or set. Even such a fine writer as John Updike does not care too much about people who happen not to live in an Eastern seaboard suburb or a small part of Pennsylvania and who do not now make more than $40,000. Sure action is supposed to take a long look in all the corners. But someone also has to take all the snapshots and try to piece them together into the moral. Below has consistently taken...
...world. An estimated 20,000 Salvadorans have been killed in the past two years alone. As many as 1,000 are murdered or disappear each month. Last week, for example, at least 19 people were killed during an antiguerrilla sweep by the Salvadoran army through a poor suburb of the nation's capital, San Salvador. According to the army, the victims were subversives who put up an armed resistance to the raid. But most independent observers agree that the victims were unarmed residents who were taken from their homes by the soldiers and shot. Many of the corpses were...