Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vital aspect of daily life in the city is now gone. Even if the city hit hardest by the nation's economic tumble witnesses an economic recovery, it will do so without its century-old focal point, an institution which offered a revered common experience to the urban and suburban, rich and poor...
...concept of "student power" developed in this setting, borrowing heavily from the rhetoric of the civil rights movement and ultimately equating the alienation from school, parents and suburban upbringing felt by white middle-class students with the literal exclusion of Black Mississippi sharecroppers from fundamental political rights and economic opportunity...
Last week, as Dorfman and Irwin Weiner, his former partner in Mob-connected enterprises, walked to lunch through the parking lot of the suburban Hyatt Lincolnwood Hotel near Chicago, two men wearing ski masks ran up behind them. "This is a stickup!" yelled one. But obviously it was not. The man opened fire immediately with a .22-cal. handgun, hitting Dorfman in the back of the head seven times. As the attackers fled, Dorfman lay dying in a pool of blood. Weiner was uninjured...
...accord competitors. News Editor William Giles, 55, calls the featurish Free Press "superficial, flighty and frilly." Lawrence says that Giles' paper, which earnestly stresses hard news, is "dull, bland and less complete than the Free Press." Giles and Lawrence live just a block away from each other in suburban Grosse Pointe Park, but as Lawrence dryly observes, "We have certainly not had the opportunity to become close friends...
...meaning that most are already in need of replacement. Meanwhile, loads across them are severely restricted. In the multiriver region of metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1,129 of the 5,000 or so bridges require repairs that would cost more than $1 billion. When loads over the Thompson Run Bridge in suburban Duquesne were reduced to five tons in 1978, the United States Steel Corp. had to detour its trucks for 26 miles, adding $1.2 million a year to its operating costs...