Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oklahoma town of Ardmore, where his father worked as a petroleum engineer. Two years later Hinckley Sr. took a job in Dallas, 100 miles south. The growing family was good-looking and healthy and Protestant, and all five settled down to life in Uni versity Park, a moneyed Dallas suburb of broad lawns and handsome houses. The Hinckleys are "a fine Christian family," according to one friend, and regular churchgoers; it was fitting that their first home in Dallas was a former parsonage...
Paris truly is a meeting place of cultures: Men from all over the world have followed me around the city. Today the Trib sends me to the suburb of Nanterre, not to cover a story, but to get a French social security number so that I can be paid. I have the equivalent of $10 left to my name. On the way back, a man from Zambia asks me if he can speak English with me. I cannot very well say no because he has followed me from the social security office to the metro and has inadvertently paid...
...middle of three children of a lawyer, Haig grew up in Bala-Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia. The neighborhood was respectably middle class, predominantly Catholic. Boys of the area formed secret gangs and Haig was the leader of one called the Musketeers. A good boxer himself, he kept out of fights by negotiating agreements under which rival gangs would stay off Bryn Mawr Avenue, the Musketeers' turf. That testimony comes from his younger brother Frank, a Jesuit priest who is chairman of the physics and computer science department at Loyola College in Baltimore. One Christmas Eve Al, then nine...
Said State Representative Bill Cabaniss: "They are putting pressure on us. They could keep the buses running for a few more weeks." The legislature, in fact, is caught in a city-suburb battle. A year ago, the transit authority pleaded with Jefferson County legislators for a countywide half-cent sales tax, with proceeds estimated at $8 million a year. But some of the area's more affluent towns wanted no transit system and no transit...
...kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged, "Don't shoot Mama!" Miranda was killed in a hail of bullets. Next night, 50 armed men searched the home of Salvador Rivera Hernandez, 39, in a working-class suburb of San Salvador. They marched Rivera and his wife into the street and shot them dead. Later in the week, a pickup truck carrying ten armed men pulled up to a cemetery in San Salvador. Interrupting a funeral service, they pointed to five cemetery workers and ordered them into the truck...