Word: suburbanitis
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...good news. Cars are so complex and expensive to build these days, in part because of the demands of fuel economy, that there is not much profit left except in the luxury models. Trucks and truckoids, even with the power windows, CD players and pleated leather seats that suburban buyers are asking for, are still simple enough, many with rear-wheel drive and huge, iron power plants outmoded 20 years ago, to return $4,000 to $6,000 in profit per vehicle. And so far, buyers have absorbed sizable price rises--for pickups, from...
...BASEMENT OFFICE suites in suburban Murray Hill, New Jersey, are being expanded almost 50%, and in a big rush. Workmen are knocking down walls and hammering nails into temporary partitions to get cubicles ready as early as next week for the people who will be surging...
Gingrich proceeded to offer a detailed analysis of Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, its demographics, how it divided between suburban and rural areas and why he had a shot at getting elected. True, the G.O.P. in Georgia barely existed. But Gingrich, as ever, was looking ahead, and saw an opportunity. After all, there was no powerful Republican establishment to screen out a presumptuous junior professor who was in a hurry to get to Congress and didn't want to waste time doing favors for party elders...
...worried aloud with his wife and grown children about what he had done to himself and the Republicans. His plan to balance the budget was a month behind schedule. He had thrown a childish fit about his treatment aboard Air Force One, then connected a grisly triple murder in suburban Chicago to "the welfare state." His popularity had been dropping, taking his party's down with it. On Monday he announced he would not run for President...
...highest attendance figures. But most painful of all, Modell is taking with him a heritage built by Paul Brown, Marion Motley, Lou Groza and Jim Brown. "It's a dart to my heart," said Dante Lavelli, the Browns' Hall of Fame end who owns a furniture store in suburban Rocky River...