Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Herringer, a group vice president of Transamerica Corp., installed an Apple in his suburban home in Lafayette, Calif, and spent a weekend analyzing various proposals for Transamerica's $300 million takeover of the New York insurance brokerage firm of Fred S. James Co. Inc. "It allowed me to get a good feel for the critical numbers," says Herringer. "I could work through alternative options, and there were no leaks." ? Terry Howard, 44, used to have a long commute to his job at a San Francisco stock brokerage, where all his work involved computer data and telephoning. With...
...another way, why do so many people make friends at the office rather than among their neighbors? Prophets of the electronic cottage predict that it will once again enable people to find community where they once did: in their communities. Continental Illinois Bank, for one, has opened a suburban "satellite work station" that gets employees out of the house but not all the way downtown. Ford, Atlantic Richfield and Merrill Lynch have found that teleconferencing can reach far more people for far less money than traditional sales conferences...
...fine stories in Bobbie Ann Mason's first collection are set mostly in western Kentucky, where her characters inhabit a "ruburb," an area no longer rural but not yet suburban. Times are changing, and bonds are loosening. Old farmers sell out and head for Florida in brand-new campers; the congregations of small country churches are dwindling; Trappist monks are admired for not putting preservatives in their bread; and a disabled truck driver passes the time needlepointing a Star Trek pillow cover while his wife lifts weights. A story that begins "Leroy Moffitt's wife, Norma Jean...
Poltergeist. The hell-mouth side of Spielberg's suburban diptych: vengeful spirits drive a middle-class family beyond bananas. The film delivers honest special-effects shocks without forfeiting its good nature. Under Tobe Hooper's direction Jobeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson shine as the dogged mom and the heroic-in-spite-of-himself...
...been out of work for 2½ years after being laid off as a Chicago janitor. In late August he tuned in to Job Line, a TV show that lists employment opportunities and gives job-hunting tips. Within a week he was hired as a driver for a suburban firm...