Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment, Motown's local economy has been saved from real damage by a system of auto-industry supplemental unemployment funds that allows most laid-off workers to continue to receive 95% of their base take-home pay; but those funds could run out within six months. Out in suburban Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe, meanwhile, auto executives gloomily ponder the prospect that normally generous year-end bonuses will be painfully thin this year. Says one Ford executive: "If there's no bonus, we'll have to scrape...
Jonathan Brant, legal counsel to the Governor's Commission on Privacy and Personal Data, said last week that compliance with the state law varied from school to school. "In the better suburban districts with active parents' groups there was more compliance," he said. Brant said the legislation had already forced some school systems to "take a hard look at the information that they keep" and to restructure their student record system...
Entitled The Costs of Sprawl, the report measures the costs of putting 10,000 dwelling units plus schools and public buildings on 6,000 acres of suburban land. Clustering the development rather than letting it spread would...
...rumpled, Brooks, 35, gives the impression of a denim bedspread on its way to the Laundromat. Burns, 39, is resolutely Beverly Hills modish. Brooks is divorced and spends his off hours at a Malibu Beach house. Burns, the married father of three, is a tennis-playing resident of suburban Mandeville Canyon...
...young and on middle-class families without corporate connections. In the Boston area, college students who could once afford to live off-campus are retreating to their dormitories. In Northern California, rural areas are dotted with prefab domes and A-frames put up by young families who cannot afford suburban housing. Two young couples who are neighbors in an apartment building in a Chicago suburb are trying to stretch their combined income of some $30,000 by going in together on a town house. Having set aside enough money to make a 30% down payment, they are searching...