Word: suburbanity
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...least one customer was converted. "It's a brilliant design," said engineer Gerry Brinker, who plans to buy one or two for his suburban New York home. "Of course, my wife's worried about it. Between that and the iPod, she thinks she'll never see me." Pearl Brinker patted his arm. "It's all right," she said indulgently. "I'm going to get them to put in an ejector seat...
...magnet elementary school, a high-performing student, as was his 12-year-old," Moore said. He described their home as "organized and nicely adorned" with drawings by the children and photos of a smiling family. In short, there was nothing to suggest the violence that ended the suburban idyll...
...just banks - or the commercial-paper market, for that matter - that are the obstacle. Talk to Mike Mitternight, president of Factory Service Agency, which installs commercial air-conditioning systems in suburban New Orleans, and you'll find out that one of his biggest problems is other businesses. Historically, he's gotten paid by contractors within 45 to 60 days. His suppliers, even major manufacturers, used to be amenable to waiting that long to get paid themselves...
...don’t we just take the T?” I’d suggest with the whiney, sluggish air of a jaded subway commuter, despite the fact that I was actually very far from being one. In my suburban hometown in California, Mitsubishi Galants and Ford Tauruses were the only way to get to Best...
...Growing up in suburban Salt Lake City, Porter was the son of a World War II soldier-turned-academic, a professor of sociology at Brigham Young University...