Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Damage appeared to be worst in Whittier, the closest suburban area to the epicenter. Marsha Andersen, a spokeswoman for Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, said 60 people had been treated for earthquake related injuries...
...Dambacher identified the fatalities as Exposito Lupe, 21, of San Gabriel, who was killed by the collapse of a wall of a parking structure at California State University and Juan Herrera, 32, who died of injuries in a fall from the second-floor window of his apartment in suburban Maywood...
Perhaps we should set them up in nice suburban homes with high-paying Wall Street jobs and doting spouses in the hope that they will eventually assimilate themselves into our culture. No, even war has rules about ferocity...
Strong sales of suburban homes are almost the only bright spot in an otherwise sluggish building industry. While the number of single-family homes started last year went up 10% from 1985, construction of new apartment dwellings was down 6%. Meanwhile, the value of commercial and industrial construction also declined...
Many of the well-heeled members of the suburban gentry go to more extravagant lengths. Cableland, the 30-room mansion built by Cable TV Mogul Bill Daniels in Denver, has a bandstand in the living room. A $20 million home in Bel Air, Calif., owned by a Los Angeles developer and a partner, has a 55- ft.-long aboveground swimming pool on a terrace. The pool has underwater windows that give swimmers a spectacular view of the Los Angeles Basin. In Lake Forest, Ill., a 38-year-old consumer-electronics salesman has installed both a waterfall and a swimming pool...