Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kenrick School of Theology in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, everyone knows everyone else's name. Gathering for evening prayers, some 50 seminarians arrange themselves among pews that were built to hold 10 times that number. Last July the Vincentians handed the school over to the Archdiocese of St. Louis for the training of priests. Only 12 of the seminarians are first-year recruits...
...Otherwise, we'd probably be living in a suburb with lots of families and a house and a yard and a garage. But then on the plus side, it's hard to separate our family and ourselves, because we really enjoy living in the house...
After spending an endless summer with old buddies in a New York suburb best known for its state-of-the-art pool hall, it's good to be back at school. So far I've spent a lot of time partying with friends and meeting new people, wolfing down burgers at Bartley's and looking for wicked cheap compact discs at New-bury Comics. This week I even stopped in on a few classes...
...Nations could have chosen a worse host than China, but participants at the Fourth World Conference on Women were hard pressed last week to think of one. As the official U.N. event opened in Beijing, more than 30,000 delegates to a parallel, nongovernmental conclave in the remote northern suburb of Huairou were still contending with all manner of inadequacies and harassments. Just why China should have put on such an unseemly display for all the world to see was a consuming puzzle, but at least the International Olympic Committee had cause for relief. Two years ago this month, Olympics...
...fetch water or buy food stared at the sky and debated the latest events. "This is the beginning of the end of the war," said Zaim Alic, 48. But his friend Vahida Fazlagic, 64, interrupted him bitterly. She was driven from her home in Grbavica, a Serb-controlled suburb of Sarajevo, by Bosnian Serb forces. "NATO has been bombing the Serb positions. So what? That doesn't hurt them, they are sitting in their bunkers. NATO should bomb Pale [the Bosnian Serb stronghold near Sarajevo] to show them what it is like to have a massacre like...