Word: suburbanized
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Price Club is not just your one-stop consumer-goods emporium, however. For the inaugurated ones, it's a way of life. The ability to buy gourmet food and top-quality electronics, housewares, and even clothes at bargain prices is revolutionizing middle class suburban life by offering up to popular consumption those luxuries once only available to society's elites...
...madhouse that is Potomac Mills on a Saturday--especially in the middle of prom season, when every teenage girl in the area is there buying a dress and shoes with her mom--represents the future of suburban life. Suburbanites want to give elegant parties. They want to decorate their houses in style and dress their children correcty. They want, in short, to live above their means...
Many of the band's most enthusiastic fans are Goths, members of a popular suburban youth cult drawn to black garb and death-rock music. Styling themselves after Manson gives them power: it strikes a blow against conformity and repulses their parents. Manson and his shock troupe never shy away from a chance to indulge in violent titillation. At a Florida concert last fall, Manson squirmed bare-chested on a carpet of broken glass. Conservative groups accuse him of devil worship. Two weeks ago, the band's Oklahoma City concert was picketed by Donald Wildmon's American Family Association...
Moreover, Clinton is right to direct funds to curtail marijuana use by suburban youth. Substance abuse--whether involving alcohol, tobacco or pot--is a danger to America's future. Supporting medicinal uses of marijuana does not mean compromising our firm stand against recreational drug...
...sleepy hometown of Chappaqua, New York was rudely awakened by the arrival of a Rite-Aid store in its downtown area. This is not such an unusual event; Rite-Aids, Blockbuster Videos, Staples and similar retail outlets are springing up in cities across America. But to a small suburban hamlet whose downtown district could easily fit inside the walls of Harvard Yard, the coming of such a superstore provided weeks of check-out counter chit-chat. We already had three drug stores within a mile or two of each other. Each was unique: Cadman's had been in business...