Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tanker in mid-ocean and stealing a million dollars in nickels from the U.S. mint. A crony named Al G. Karp, who looks like a softball that sweats, springs him from the pen to enlist his help on a new scheme: to break a bank called Mission Bell in suburban Los Angeles...
...widower, he moves first out of his West Side Manhattan apartment, which has fallen victim to urban renewal, and in with his son and family, who have a small suburban house. The household is in a state of operational turmoil, with rankling dinner-table conversation and fraternal loathing between Harry's two grandsons. Harry is not a burden here; even in the middle of brawls everyone is solicitous of him. The household quickly becomes a weight...
...study areas-Honolulu, Houston, Miami, Milwaukee, Phoenix, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Vermont, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C. -nonsmoking donors had COHb levels just below the threshold: from 1.2% to 1.4%. The New York metropolitan area scored an average of 1.2% for 15 stations, mostly suburban (but Brooklyn rated 2.1% and a Manhattan blood center 2%). Three areas were on the 1.5% mark: Anchorage, San Francisco and Seattle. Five were over: Chicago 1.7%, Denver 2%, Detroit 1.6%, Los Angeles 1.8% and New Orleans...
Loyalty Checkups. What interests Solberg most are the interlocked ironies of cause and unexpected effect, so maddening for a people encouraged to believe that brave acts and sensible policies guarantee happy endings. As everyone is now aware, all those freestanding, suburban one-family houses (an American dream come true) were livable only if the owners had cars, and so helped bring on nightmarish traffic jams, the decay of the cities and the decline of public transport. Solberg also considers such a thing as the G.I. Bill a marvelous benefit to youth and society...
...food and decor at McDonald's, for example, with Ihe assertion that "the function of the fast-food business ... is quite simple: Women's Liberation." That is, it frees Mom from shopping, cooking and washing up, so don't complain. In the same vein, "suburban sprawl is a pejorative phrase that describes perhaps the most comfortable mass residential living conditions in history...