Word: suburb
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Oppenheimer and his wife Bridget live in a style befitting their wealth. Home is a colonial mansion surrounded by formal gardens in a northern suburb of Johannesburg. Decorations include paintings by Chagall, Goya, Renoir and Picasso, and bookshelves are lined with first editions of Lord Byron and other poets. Oppenheimer owns a stud farm where he raises prize race horses, and a 900-acre game preserve in eastern Transvaal...
...boycotts when there are other remedies available-for example, share holder proposals at annual meetings to ban company advertisements on excessively violent shows. One such N.C.C. petition succeeded, Fore said, in persuading General Mills executives to adopt the policy voluntarily. Peggy Charren of Newtonville, Mass., a Boston suburb, is head of Action for Children's Television, which has successfully lobbied for better juvenile programming. Her group opposes the coalition's crusade, she says, "because ACT believes that the Moral Majority is not out to improve children's television but rather is out to control communications in this...
...excel at training in basic skills, personal courtesy and classroom decorum. A cross section of Christian schools-Christian Liberty Academy. "Government schools are a taxpayer rip-off and a blight on our students," says the Rev. Paul Lindstrom, 41, head of the Christian Liberty Academy in the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights. A former inner-city schoolteacher, Lindstrom founded the academy in 1968 partly to oppose what he saw as creeping socialism in the public school curricula. Today, 150 students (preschool through twelfth grade) get a stiff dose of moral education and free-enterprise economics in small classes (average pupil...
...Smales, a liberal Johannesburg couple with three small children. As the rioting spreads, they turn to July, the black man who has been their servant for 15 years. He piles them into a van and guides them to his ancestral village, nearly 400 miles away. This "crash from the suburb to the wilderness" takes three torturous days and nights to accomplish...
Three Orange County housing workers arrived last Tuesday at the home of Tommy and Mae Rose Owens in Winter Park, Fla., a suburb of Orlando, to complete paperwork on the couple's federal loan for home improvement. But the Owenses were not there. Neither were the house and the yard. They had fallen-along with five expensive foreign cars, a truck, a parking lot, part of a four-lane road and much of a municipal swimming pool-into a sinkhole. That geological oddity resulted when underground limestone caverns, which are usually filled and strengthened by water, were gradually drained...