Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patent attorney, Wilson was born in Manhattan but has lived most of his life in suburban Yonkers. A devout Roman Catholic who attends Mass every day, he graduated from Fordham Law School. At 24, Wilson won a seat in the state assembly. He acquired a reputation as a meticulous, sometimes plodding legislator who epitomized conservatism in both politics and private life...
...middle-class whites back to the city, where they can get away from auto dependence. Suburban sprawl could be correspondingly contained. At minimum, businesses would have to plan factory and office locations differently; no longer could a company plop a plant or office complex in an area without public transportation, blithely confident that a work force would roll up to its doors in a fleet of cars...
...Drive, No Eat. Like many a suburban mother, Sue Fisher, who lives near Miami, pushes her Ford LTD station wagon about 400 miles a week?delivering her three children to school, picking them up again, visiting a bank, post office, supermarket and the home of her ailing mother. That's on weekdays; on Saturdays she chauffeurs her two sons to an art class at the University of Miami, takes one to a weekly orthodontist appointment and drives her daughter to dancing lessons. "I'm trying to conserve energy by saving trips," says Mrs. Fisher, "but the fuel shortage is going...
...suburban research campuses that ring Detroit, auto engineers are working overtime on designs for even smaller models. Next year, American Motors will probably bring out a new mini-car that may be smaller than any existing U.S.-made auto, get more than 30 m.p.g. and carry a sticker price of about $2,000. Even Cadillac...
...popular picture of the commuter is of a man wending his way daily from bedroom suburb to city office. But in the ten largest metropolitan areas outside New York City, only 18% of the daily traffic moves that way; fully half of the commuters travel from suburban home to suburban job. (About 25% both live and work in the city, and 7% reverse-commute from the city to the suburbs.) As many suburbanites know, that pattern has produced traffic snarls, at intersections dozens of miles outside the core city, that rival anything encountered on downtown streets. Says Ford Motor Chairman...