Word: suburb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...threatened to stop delivery this week unless its bill is paid -- the district owes about $2.5 million to its creditors. Central Falls, R.I., has asked the state to take over its schools rather than be forced to fire almost 100 of its 200 teachers. Montgomery County, Md., an affluent suburb of Washington, must locate $65 million in savings next year. "We're trying to find a way not to cut into classroom programs," says Brian Porter, director of information for the school system, "but not hurting classroom teaching is next to impossible...
...1960s, Object Lessons concerns three generations of a rich Irish clan who live in an established inner suburb of New York City. The patriarch, John Scanlan, is a lively if familiar fictional figure, a power-driven old sinner who started making Communion hosts at 21 and who now has vestment factories in Manila and construction companies closer to home. The Scanlans' milieu has much in common with the author's childhood as depicted in her columns: nuns, summers at the beach and minute, competitive skirmishes among preadolescent girls. Quindlen also relishes skewering pirates like John; to him the Kennedys...
Because the 911 system can never be abandoned -- woe to the mayor of any city in which the police cannot be summoned quickly during a break-in -- many departments are looking at ways to cut down on the number of calls. In the Denver suburb of Aurora, where only about a fourth of an estimated 190,000 calls each year are for real emergencies, police operators perform "911 triage." Where appropriate, they direct nonemergency callers to other city agencies. Police officers take the less urgent crime reports over the phone...
This is Disney's second venture outside the U.S. Eight years ago, Japan's Disneyland opened in the Tokyo suburb of Urayasu; for the fiscal year that ends this month, it should post revenues of more than $1 billion. The Japanese Disneyland was meant to be thoroughly American, though: most signs are in English, and only one of the 30 restaurants serves Japanese food...
...began with wailing police cars chasing a motorist through the night, cornering his car in a Los Angeles suburb and surrounding the driver as he stepped into the street. A sergeant fired a 50,000-volt Taser stun gun at the unarmed black man, then three officers took turns kicking him and smashing him in the head, neck, kidneys and legs with their truncheons. A hovering helicopter bathed the scene in a floodlight as 11 other policemen looked on. When the beating was over, Rodney King, 25, an unemployed construction worker, had suffered 11 fractures in his skull, a crushed...