Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew I was either going to break down and cry, get dangerously drunk, or commit homicide if I went back to Weld that night. So I called my best friend, Mark, and got on the Green Line to go see him for the night. Just being back in my suburban hometown, I knew, would make it easier to deal with...
...graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, Curley, like Neuharth, began his career as a reporter for the Associated Press. He joined Gannett in 1969 as suburban editor of the Rochester Times-Union and rose quickly, becoming company president in 1984. Said Neuharth of his successor: "He's a reporter who knows how to pay the rent...
...object. Lili Gross, 32, makes a monthly expedition to Fred Segal, a Los Angeles clothing shop, where she spends up to $300 on surfer shorts, Japanese print shirts and other exotic duds for her five-year-old son Brandon. Joel Stillman, 38, and his wife Renee, 38, of suburban Detroit spent $800 on smart-looking ski outfits and equipment for their son Jonathon, 11, and daughter Sara, 8. Karen Topalian, 40, bought her daughter Kendra, almost 2, a $120 yellow pima cotton frock. Says Topalian, who lives in Cohasset, Mass.: "I love my children to look nice...
...bills, precocious youngsters often insist on making decisions in matters of taste and style. Partly because of their exposure to TV and music videos, retailers say, the kiddies can be adamant about what is and is not in vogue. Notes Susanna Hart, manager of Little Me in suburban Atlanta: "The child comes in and says, 'This is what I want. I won't wear anything else.' These are very opinionated children...
...make instant history out of the immediate past. But Hess is a militant. He belongs to the Society for Commercial Archeology and claims as his proudest achievement convincing the Department of the Interior in 1984 that the oldest surviving McDonald's, plopped down just 31 years earlier in suburban Los Angeles, deserves inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places...