Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the suffering goes on. The day before Thanksgiving, Albert Fouchia of Southfield lost his job with a rivet supplier for the second time in 18 months. At the unemployment office in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, a dozen long lines of people wait for benefit checks in shamed, disconsolate quiet. Most act too embarrassed to talk even to fellow job seekers. Few seem hopeful of finding work. Says Gloria Condele, 44, a laid off cashier: "Even people who are still working are worried." Roy Gavel, previously laid off as a Chevrolet assembly worker in 1975, got certified...
...popular former Education Minister in the Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Callaghan, Williams scored her victory in a by-election in Crosby, a backwater suburb of Liverpool that had sent Tories to Westminster since 1918. In the last election, the Tories' victory margin was 19,000 votes. Williams not only won by 5,000 votes; she captured 49.1% of the tally, compared with 39.8% for the Tories and 9.5% for Labor. Proclaimed London's Daily Mirror with unabashed admiration: "Shirley the First...
...cats. While this hardly compares with the 26 million dogs registered with the American Kennel Club, raising new feline breeds is becoming more than a cottage pastime. After one of their three children had grown up and moved away, Edward and Carol Harrison in Palatine, Ill., a Chicago suburb, remortgaged their white frame house to add on a $35,000 cattery, complete with breeding pens and outdoor runs. They raise Somalis, a long-haired variation of the Abyssinian. Their kittens of show quality attract a two-year waiting list of prospective owners and sell for $500 to $1,000. Says...
...years later, he was promoted to senior vice president in charge of operations, a post he snared when his friend and lawyer, James Massa, bought controlling interest in the firm. The onetime clerk quickly became a high roller, building a home worth some $800,000 in a St. Louis suburb and making frequent gambling jaunts to the casinos of Nassau and Nevada...
...Soviets have purged the central committee of the Tudeh of what they call "bourgeois-minded reformists" and put in their own people. The security agents have set up shop in Saltanatabad, a northern suburb of Tehran, in the former headquarters of SAVAK, the notorious secret police of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Recruits for the new revolutionary secret service include some Islamic Guards, the better members of an inefficient secret service created after the fall of the Shah, and former SAVAK agents who have lost none of their taste for brutality and their skill at torture. Their Soviet teachers...