Word: suburbanitis
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Finally, Republicans don't want to lose their best issue. The marriage penalty is one of the few sure-fire winners for the G.O.P., uniting family-values conservatives with married suburban swing voters. Clinton, reading the same polls, wants to take the issue off the table by swapping the marriage-tax cut for a Medicare prescription-drug benefit. But the Republicans realize that if they take the deal, they will have nothing popular to promise the voters in November. Thus, so far, they have said no. But if the summer drags on and the public buys Al Gore's attacks...
...killer, it seems, was never on Everson's bad-trick list. He left no decipherable signature: the bags tied around his victims' heads were more likely an effort to contain the blood than a symbol of suburban anonymity. Even FBI psycho profilers were stymied, offering only that the perpetrator was probably a white male age 20 to 40. When a suspect was finally arrested, hookers recalled him as a regular, paying cash several times a month for a $28.95 room at the Spokane Budget Saver Motel. "He was a good trick," says Everson. "He was never weird. The women were...
...plans are almost always opposed by local retailers who fear loss of trade. It took four years of court squabbles, which set his company back $15 million in design and legal fees, before Kaempfer was cleared to break ground this summer on a 309,000-sq.-ft., 100-store suburban Berlin mall. Kaempfer understands local concerns but calls them misplaced. "We're not threatening anybody," he asserts, because outlet sales are no more than 3% of the European retail...
...mobbed like a Mexican rock star, one of those angry norteno balladeers who wail about shame and betrayal. At 6 ft. 5 in. in his cowboy boots, Fox, the presidential candidate of the conservative National Action Party (P.A.N.), towers above everybody, even his bodyguards. He moves toward a blue Suburban, through a press of sweating, grinning fans shouting, "Vi-cen-te, Vi-cen-te!" He clasps hands with a barefoot Indian in baggy white cottons, autographs a photo for an adoring middle-class senora and squeezes into the Suburban with reluctance, like a hearty guest sorry to leave the fiesta...
Hands reach inside the Suburban, eager to touch Fox, even though the bodyguards are quickly cranking up the windows. In the backseat, Fox's sleek and bronzed daughter, Ana Cristina, 20, looks scared that the windows might burst under the hammering from Fox's aficionados. "My father," she says with as much worry as pride, "is a phenomenon." By now, Fox is busy flashing the V sign to passing cars, while at the same time combing confetti out of his brown hair and swigging orange Gatorade. Something has to give, and it's the Gatorade, which Fox sloshes all over...