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Word: suburban (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much relief in sight, even if the U.S. unemployment rate rises a bit from its 28-year low of 4.3%. In Austin, Texas, for example, the national rate is quite irrelevant. Unemployment there is officially 2.3%, and Steve Mays, director of a suburban grocery store, says only half-jokingly that it "is really minus 1.7%," given the "cannibalism" of employers' swiping workers from one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help! | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...calls it "nothing less than a new way to produce opera." Irreverent locals dubbed the show Carmen a-go-go but turned out to cheer. More than 7,000 paying customers braved record-breaking heat to attend the May 30 inaugural performance at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in suburban Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carmen, the MTV Diva | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...Germany. Better to talk to the left fullback in French; one midfielder is Dutch-born, another is from Uruguay and yet another from Yugoslavia. Throw in some California dudes, a couple of kids from Jersey, a farm-boy goaltender from Washington State and, bless us, a few sons of suburban soccer moms, and you've got a classic melting-pot, hyphenated-American squad. "I don't think about Germany as the country I grew up in, but as the team I want to beat," says Thomas Dooley, 37, son of an American serviceman and a German mother. Dooley now plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Melting-Pot Team | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...cute little couple looked as if they should be sauntering through Great Adventure or waiting in line for tokens at the local arcade. Instead, the 14-year-olds walked purposefully into the Teen Center in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah. They didn't mince words about their reason for stopping in. For quite some time, usually after school and on weekends, the boy and girl had tried to heighten their arousal during sex. Flustered yet determined, the pair wanted advice on the necessary steps that might lead them to a more fulfilling orgasm. His face showing all the desperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where'd You Learn That? | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...Sinatra sings "You stick around, Jack, it might show" on Something, you get the feeling not that he's hoking it up Vegas-style so much as he's rooting around for rhythmic complexity in a beautiful if simple song; he's a muscle car idling on a leafy suburban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANK SINATRA: The Singer | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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