Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Watson Jr., who is often called on to attend board sessions and meet with financial advisers in Manhattan. But a trial run in 1961, when 200 executives and employees were temporarily moved into an IBM research center in Yorktown, N.Y., went so well that IBM became convinced that suburbia poses no insurmountable problems to its THiNKing force...
Impact in Suburbia. The revolution has been a long time brewing. As Cornell Political Scientist Andrew Hacker puts it: "The new conservatism is the result of the democratic process itself; the widening of new opportunities for millions of Americans who have risen to a better location in life and who at all cost want to ensure that they remain there." Accordingly, many Goldwater admirers are middle-class "haves"-a fact that was obvious in the crowds of well-dressed, well-behaved men and matrons who showed up at receptions for their man all over San Francisco...
...more desperate than a temporary Christmastime job with a schlock detective agency. The agency lends him a car, car and cash attract a girl friend, and his upfall is assured. Author Gelber's anteroom to hell has become a shabby little way station on the train ride to suburbia...
...major U.S. political parties over the long haul? Almost surely, it would give the Republicans greater legislative representation in the South, where their greatest voter strength is in underrepresented cities. It should also give the G.O.P. greater representation from the U.S.'s generally Republican, fast-growing suburbia. It may hurt the Republicans in their old stronghold, the Midwest, where rural interests have long had disproportionate power in state legislatures. If nothing else, it should serve as a spur to the G.O.P. to work much harder in the big industrial cities...
...elegant agora of the new suburbia, the font of everything from Kix to Cheer, and the source of no small amount of corn - including the gag about the housewife whose shopping cart does $40 an hour. The American housewife thinks nothing of spending an average $1,200 a year in the super market. Altogether, U.S. food stores do a $60 billion-a-year business, as much as the steel and auto industries wrapped together...