Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, and ordered the city and the suburbs to "metropolitanize," to bus children from the city into the suburbs and vice-versa. The suburban school boards have appealed the decision. They contend that the federal government cannot require that their school children be bused, since the localities have not been guilty of intentionally segregating black from white students. The 84 suburban school districts surrounding Detroit claim a metropolitan busing order, in the absence of a demonstrated intent to segregate, is an unwarranted intrusion into their local government's legitimate authority...
...perception is stated in appropriate terms, but its scope is unfortunately restricted. A concentration of children from wealthy, white suburban schools will also give them less "mutual stimulation" than will classmates with mixed backgrounds. De facto segregation deprives white children of their equal educational opportunity--the opportunity for exposure to different life styles and attitudes...
Good land down below. Good people when you get there. What we used to call Richard Nixon's people for the most part. Supermarket proprietors, cattlemen, computer salesmen, bankers, suburban housewives and mothers-the people who plan and manage the American way of life...
...Sicilian immigrants, who has traded his attorney's narrow lapels for the velour suits and mink coat of a promoter. He makes a business of turning rich fans -and ordinary folk as well -into investors. Since he made sport a career six years ago, the former suburban prosecutor, Jaycee BOUTELLE president and housing consultant has created an athletic empire worth $40 million...
...rule of color-blindness would seriously endanger much of the progress made since 1968 in the numbers of minority students in universities. Test scores of minority applicants from ghetto schools and of lower socio-economic background, cannot be expected to come out as high as those of students from suburban schools and environments which stress educational achievement, especially when the tests continue to have a strong middle-class bias in content and value...