Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nursing-home operator. "In the office, we spend all our time juggling phone calls from CEOs, dealing with problems from hiring to firing," he says. "You've got to change your mind-set quickly from one company to another." Cressey spends his free time on a five-acre suburban spread 40 miles northwest of Chicago with his wife Christy and three children. But even at home, Cressey says, "I'm always thinking about a company's problems. It's an addictive life...
...dawning there were isolated stragglers, determinedly circling suburban high school tracks or pacing through city parks. Most Americans did not suppose these were the harbingers of a U.S. craze. But by the end of the 1970s joggers were everywhere, all seemingly in training for the marathon. Other citizens, plunging into alternate activities, were equally fervid. Swimmers boasted of laps completed, cyclists of long-distance touring, and weight lifters of pounds pressed. Today Americans live in a land where fit is proper. Strut your sweat. The majority, who remain woefully unfit, are now the ones who feel out of step; shamefacedly...
...high-tech wonders are created in a surprisingly low-tech cluster of buildings in a suburban office park. A sign out front says THE KERNER COMPANY --a deception intended, company officials say, to keep away youngsters who used to rummage through the garbage looking for cast-off Darth Vaders and E.T.s. The ambiance is casual; blue jeans and running shoes are ubiquitous, and a family spirit prevails. "It's a group effort rather than a search for personal glory," says George Joblove, who joined ILM last year to help develop a computer-graphics department. "There's a nice sense...
...rather a flashy kind of Yankee individualism--spontaneous, self-reliant and acquisitive. "American film exports the American dream," says Charlton Heston, "which is achievable, not a fantasy. What film has done to the developing world is to change its sense of possibility." Yet a car and a comfy suburban split-level are not reasonably achievable by a Pakistani farmer; thus pop's glossy portrayals of the good life can raise cruelly false hopes...
Professor of Government Hugh Heclo said he will make the move to the suburban, northern Virginia school in order to raise his family in what he called a more pleasant, rural environment...