Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mutineers and their leader, cashiered Lt. Col. Aldo Rico, were taken into custody from the infantry school at suburban Campo de Mayo, which they had occupied since Thursday, said Defense Minister Horacio Jaunarena...
...described by Dubinsky before about 3,000 United employees at a suburban Chicago sports center, the plan calls for employees to buy the airline by raising $2.3 billion and assuming $2.2 billion worth of the airline's debt. United pilots, who earn as much as $156,000 a year, have volunteered to give up anywhere from 5% to 25% of their salaries to help make the buyout work. A representative of Lazard Freres, the investment banking firm that employees have enlisted to help raise cash for the takeover bid, pronounced the venture "viable." One notable believer in the scheme...
...market, although it has been condemned by critics for promoting violence. Now the game's realism appears to have cost a young player his life. One night last week Leonard Falcon, 19, and three young friends were darting about Central Elementary % School in Rancho Cucamonga, a suburban town 45 miles east of Los Angeles, zapping each other with the beams from their guns. During the mock combat, Falcon jumped from behind bushes, assumed a shooting stance and fired his plastic pistol at an obscure figure. In the next instant Falcon was killed, after two shotgun blasts were fired...
Thatcher drew large crowds during her sightseeing expeditions, including visits to an apartment complex in suburban Krylatskoye and a well-stocked supermarket, where the PM purchased a can of herring-like fish fillets called pilchards. The Prime Minister also met with Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the dissident leader who was allowed to return to Moscow four months ago from a seven-year exile in Gorky. Sakharov emphasized the importance of Gorbachev's social reforms to the prospects for world peace. Said he: "A more democratic, more open country is safer for the world as a whole...
...such a price for Sunflowers? It is one of the larger Van Goghs, if not necessarily the best. Thanks to mass reproduction, it is exceptionally popular and famous. Its clones have hung on so many suburban walls over the decades that it has become the Mona Lisa of the vegetable world. What is more, everyone associates it with Van Gogh's madness; it is the embodied sign of what all persons of cultural pretension long ago learned to call his "last outburst of frenzied genius," or words to that effect. Thus, apart from its merits as a painting...