Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Battaglio said Tyson, who has a house in a suburb of Hartford, went home first and did not check into the hospital until about four hours after the incident. He is expected to remain there for about 48 hours...
This is how Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin remembers the New York suburb Rockville Centre of her childhood in her memoir Wait Till Next Year. Though it outwardly embodies the popular conception of the '50s, this book doesn't tell the same old story. Goodwin reveals herself, not surprisingly, as a precocious child. From her ill, house-bound mother, she gained a love for books; from her oldest sister Charlotte, a sense of grace and style; and from Jeanne, the middle child, confidence and ambition. Her father taught her a love of baseball--especially of the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...just a way to better your lot in life; it's a religion that seems ready to unify the planet with a single Almighty. In Wall Street we trust, and trust, and trust some more. Patricia Horst, 62, president of her own business-forms company in a Cincinnati, Ohio, suburb, says every dime of her portfolio is in the market. "Every night when I download the prices on my holdings, I just sit there in awe of all the money I'm making," she marvels. The benevolent stock-market god--the true promise keeper of our generation--is paving...
...individual's life, the end of civilization and the end of human domination of the earth. Through the journals of an aging and increasingly morbid retiree, Ben Turnbull, Updike comments on the hubris of man and anticipates his inevitable fall. Living in 2020 in a posh suburb of Boston, a survivor of the recent Sino-American war and the ensuing social chaos, Turnbull indulges his ravenous sexual appetite and considers his own and his world's decay...
Paul Carlson, a second-year Masters in Public Policy student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG), is running for one of three seats in the House of Delegates in his home district of Montgomery County, a suburb of Washington D.C. with 55,000 registered voters...