Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more insidious malady has been infecting high schools everywhere: apathy. Teachers are regarded as adversaries; students work below capacity to avoid being seen as teachers' pets. Why? Ellen Glanz, 28, a popular social sciences teacher at the 1,700-student Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in suburban Boston, decided to try to find...
...jungle of ads, serious national stories that jump from page to page to page, ads, eclectic local reports, ads, entertainment listings, ads, ads and ads (more than any other U.S. daily). Despite periodic attempts to impose order on that marvelous mess, the Times remains the newsprint equivalent of suburban sprawl...
...suburbs. The New York Times has launched four new inserts for neighboring areas on Sunday, the Miami Herald now has seven different editions throughout south Florida, the Detroit News has a computerized printing plant in the suburbs for speedier distribution, and the Chicago Tribune last year invested in suburban growth in, of all places, San Diego -by buying nearby Escondido's Times-Advocate (circ. 31,000). The Los Angeles Times itself has been producing a separate edition for neighboring Orange County for a decade...
...majority of successful candidates combine academic competence with outstanding personal endorsements. For some, like the successful female applicant from suburban Washington, D.C., it is one special talent--in her case the ability to play the cello on a professional level--that saw her through. In admissions jargon this is known as "the special dimension...
...were closing in on Empain's other suspected captors, friends of Caillol with known police records, and had discovered the house where the baron had been confined during the last three weeks of his captivity. When he was led to the site, a modest two-story dwelling in suburban Savigny-sur-Orge, 15 miles south of Paris, Empain recognized a fork that he had used while held there and several empty packages of his American-brand cigarettes...