Word: suburban
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...Reagan will have three televised opportunities to get his message across to the Chinese public: an interview with Chinese journalists, a speech at Peking's Great Hall of the People, and a question-and-answer session with students at Shanghai's Fudan University. Besides the requisite stops at schools, suburban communes and the Great Wall, Reagan and Wife Nancy will take a one-day side trip to Xian, an archaeological wonder featuring the 2,000-year-old tomb of China's first Emperor. In addition to the sumptuous banquet at the Great Hall, the Reagans will be treated...
Among those who have taken advantage of the reduced initial borrowing costs are Michael and Cheryl Petryni, who recently bought a $161,000, three-bedroom suburban Los Angeles home. Their loan carries a first-year interest rate of 10¼% and has a cap that will keep the rate from rising above 15¼%. Says Michael Petryni, 36, a screenwriter: "I studied the adjustable mortgages at seven different lending institutions, and after a while they all started to sound the same...
...Akron Beacon Journal (circ. 163,300), Kansas' Wichita Eagle-Beacon (circ. 120,900), Oregon's Eugene Register-Guard (circ. 65,200) and North Carolina's Fayetteville Times and Observer (combined circ. 66,900) serve sizable communities away from big cities. They are matched in quality by suburban competitors of papers on TIME's ten best list: the Quincy Patriot Ledger (circ. 89,300) south of Boston, the Bergen County Record (circ. 149,200) in northern New Jersey, the Los Angeles Daily News (circ. 132,900) in the San Fernando Valley. Some of these medium-size dailies...
MANY OF THE FIRST radical feminists not only detested men, but also criticized women harshly. They caricatured and decried prototypical female role models. Betty Friedan called suburban households "comfortable concentration camps" for married women, implying that it was up to these women to improve their own lives. But Friedan's criticism was aimed principally at middle class housewives. Later feminists recognized that women's problems are not merely self-imposed by a certain socioeconomic class of woman, but are endemic and imposed by a historically sexist society...
...consumer firms' demand for executives by 33% last year. The financial-services field, meanwhile, recorded a 23% gain. Commercial bankers have been in especially short supply. A 32-year-old banker might already be making $60,000, says David Healey, president of Balch & Watson, a search firm in suburban Minneapolis. "Those individuals can sit at their desks and get calls virtually every day from executive recruiters...