Word: suburbanitis
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...capital, the police chief resigned in tears the same day, having failed to bring down a murder rate that has claimed more than 2,000 lives in the past five years. In a brutalized city, where those who can afford it escape the inner city each night to suburban safety, the cold- blooded slaying of Basu touched nerves long numbed by statistics, destroying any notion that only a life of vice could lead to such a death. Pamela Basu, 34, was an award-winning research chemist with W.R. Grace & Co. The Indian-born scientist is described by colleagues...
...knows, blacks more than other Americans need their stories now, the recovered histories of what they have been and fantasies of what they might be. The American family, as well, desperately needs a new folklore, a new driving myth. The old version, which in caricature is a 1950s suburban setting out of Ozzie and Harriet, does not entirely work anymore, except in nostalgia, in Kennebunkport, Maine, or in Ronald Reagan's afternoon naps...
...like this is anything striking in a city. New York and Los Angeles are like that as well. Subways bring in the suburban whites who fill up the downtown office buildings, and then take them back as they flee the city with the sunset...
...Bush's reach. In 1988 Dukakis won high-growth Contra Costa County, across the bay from San Francisco, with a 3- point margin. Mary Wilson, who manages the Bush campaign in the state, says ; the county is a "good snapshot of California" because it includes "pockets of Republicans, minorities, suburban yuppies, growth industries, agriculture and blue-collar jobs." Wilson notes that Republican candidates typically run 6 to 7 points ahead of Republican registration, which is around 45%. But while both Bush and Clinton visited Contra Costa in July, the Arkansas Governor is currently ahead there by a stunning 28 points...
...Will Decide: Five key suburban counties favor Clinton...