Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's been so much new construction," hesaid. "When I first came here 40 years ago, it wasalmost a suburban campus. At one time we used toplay touch football in a field where the ScienceCenter and Gordon McKay Laboratory are nowsitting...
Despite being on the ice for most of the third period, Princeton's first-line of John Messuri, Bart Blaeser and Greg Polaski--who are all from the Boston area and call themselves the "Suburban Snipers"--could manage only a lone power-play goal with seven minutes left in the game...
Most of the rebellion's drama centered on the Channel 7 TV compound in suburban Manila, where some 160 mutinous soldiers and 100 civilians huddled inside the walls while a thousand government troops waited nervously outside. Since friendships cut across the lines, the two sides opted to trade radio messages instead of shots. "Mommy, take care of my children," sobbed a female mutineer. Came the government's response, from the five-year-old daughter of Rebel Leader Colonel Oscar Canlas: "Daddy, come home. Mommy has a stomachache...
Most such misgivings will remain unsettled while officials try out the range of possibilities before them. In September, suburban Nassau County, near New York City, began testing one of the most talked about new approaches, electronic house arrest. Probationers selected for the program are required to be housebound when not at work. To make sure they comply, each wears a kind of futuristic ball and chain: a 4-oz. radio transmitter that is attached to the ankle with tamperproof plastic straps. The device broadcasts a signal to a receiver hooked up to the wearer's home phone, which in turn...
...began to see signs for Chapstick and Sunglasses. As we approached the city, we passed a few suburban communities. The largest was called Bic Pens. Another was called Lone Glove. We sped though Lone Sock, Disposable Lighters, Backs of Earrings and Single Cufflinks...