Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...physical and psychological stresses, may run some enhanced risks. The drugs can stunt growth by accelerating bone maturation. Physicians also speculate that the chemicals may compromise youngsters' still developing reproductive systems. Steroid users have experienced a shrinking of the testicles and impotence. Dr. Richard Dominguez, a sports specialist in suburban Chicago, starts his lectures to youths with a surefire attention grabber: "You want to shrink your balls? Take steroids...
...long as her husband has been prepping for his. The third of four children of a father who worked his way up the ladder to become president of the McCall Corp., which among other things owned McCall's magazine, and a mother happy to entertain and garden in suburban Rye, Barbara attended public and private schools. She finished at Ashley Hall, a South Carolina prep school where neglecting to wear white gloves was virtually a punishable offense. At a party in Greenwich, Conn., during Christmas break her senior year, she met George Bush, recently graduated from Andover. A generic dancer...
Wood stoves, once trendy devices beloved by suburban bores, are out of fashion. But the subtle mysteries of the split log endure...
...hazard at parties, the way bullfight bores had been three decades before, sports-car bores were a bit after that and college-tuition bores are now. Some self-pleased gasbag was always bombinating lengthily about his new airtight Jotul 118 or Vermont Castings Defiant or Fisher Papa Bear. (Yes, suburban trendies, from South Carolina to north of Boston, would actually buy, and get all gooey over, a 200-lb. hunk of welded steel that some marketing genius had called a Papa Bear.) This ecological wonder, the braggart would assure other wood burners waiting their turn to boast, would oxidize...
...Exchange Commission filed in September. The SEC accused Milken of, among other offenses, manipulating stock prices to reap millions of dollars in illicit profits and defraud his clients. The lawsuit portrayed Milken as a zealous dealmaker whose disrespect for tradition led him to disregard the law as well. A suburban Los Angeles native who attended Wharton Business School, Milken was the pioneer of junk bonds as a financing technique for midsize companies and later as the potent fuel for takeovers...