Word: suburbans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to be whisked away by his Secret Service detail promptly at the end of each event lingered into the night to talk with stragglers at a town-hall meeting, staying until a cleaning crew began refolding and stacking the empty metal chairs. He got around in a Suburban, not the vice-presidential limousine. Gone were the crisp navy suits, replaced by khaki pants hemmed short enough to display at least 6 in. of his shiny cowboy boots. At his belt he had clipped the proud emblem of the techno-geek: a PalmPilot...
...issue, "A Week in the Life of a Hospital," about the Duke University Medical Center, which we told them would be a model for this project. But they were also persuaded by our regional ambassador, team member and Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill, whose father is superintendent of another suburban St. Louis school district. "Having grown up in a family of public school educators," says Stodghill, "I've seen firsthand the dedication and hard work of these people under fairly trying circumstances...
Were it not for his love of Rollerblading and her occasional pigtails, Peter Vishion and Sally Roth would do a good imitation of a suburban married couple. She does the laundry; he does the dishes. Tonight he's in the oak-trimmed kitchen making grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner, before they settle down in front of The Simpsons to eat and do homework. They have known each other since sixth grade, been a couple for one year, and when Peter's parents are out of town, like this week, they move in together. Sally's mother approves. But Sally...
...American teenagers feel somewhat safe, safe or extremely safe in their schools. In 1994, 40 percent of teenagers worried they would be a victim of violence in school or on the street. Today, only 24 percent fear for their safety. (The results are virtually identical for students at rural, suburban and urban campuses...
...tour of Wu Chao-Chih's domain is potentially perilous. As the agile Taiwanese woman leads visitors through a cluttered site in suburban Taipei, she warns them to watch out for jagged steel and rusted pipes. But she doesn't seem too nervous about the crane that swings a ton of scrap metal just overhead...