Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North High School in the affluent Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Mich., the clean, airy dining room looks out on a parking lot filled with students' Volkswagens, Hondas and even one classic E-type Jaguar. At 11:30 a.m., the room starts to fill with the first of three lunchtime shifts. But about half of North High's 1,600 students drive to fast-food restaurants, go home or bring their own lunches; of the remainder, 70% pass up the standard federally subsidized lunch to buy à la carte items-90? hamburgers, $1.15 bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches...
...bonus to buyers. A free Cadillac (value: $18,300) will go to the new owner of a three-bedroom ranch house in exclusive Bloomfield Hills that is priced at $204,000; a less commanding Chevette (value: $7,000) goes along with a three-bedroom colonial in a Canton Township suburb...
...first doctor to see little Fredy Garcia was the family pediatrician in the Madrid suburb of Alcorcon. Fredy was suffering from a low-grade fever that occasionally returned to normal; the doctor diagnosed simple laryngitis and sent the six-year-old home to take antibiotics...
...three servants. But even Beverly Hills lacks sidewalks and has an alley strewn with garbage. Zuko Tofile, who works for the U.S. government-run American Cultural Center, explains that frustration prevails among the Black middle and upper classes. No Black, no matter how wealthy, can live in a white suburb. The most affluent Blacks still must face poverty and despair every day. And they often are beaten up by other Blacks...
...occurred almost simultaneously in the northern Lebanese town of Chekka, where an explosion outside a cement factory said to be owned by P.L.O. and Syrian sympathizers killed ten and wounded ten more. A day later, a third explosion killed two and injured several more in the low-income Beirut suburb of Bourj-el-Barajneh, a P.L.O. stronghold; the Front also claimed to have been behind that bombing...