Word: suburbs
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...Mitt Romney who gave his acceptance speech at the Embassy Suites in Southfield, Mich. - an upscale Detroit suburb - had a hair out of place. Maybe more than one. He was in his shirtsleeves. He was, as a spokesman said, "the stripped-down, acoustic Romney - Romney unplugged." The clunky chimera candidate who tried so hard to prove his conservative credentials had become a model of simplicity with one major theme: He was a successful "can-do CEO," in the words of state G.O.P. chairman Saul Anuzis, "who knows how to get jobs back...
...While still in high school in the San Francisco suburb of Burlingame, Strauss created Politico, a homemade board game of political campaign strategy, and served as a page at the U.S. Supreme Court...
...later and 80 frozen miles away, McCain showed up in a Des Moines suburb, one stop on his three-day private plane hopscotch across the state. "I'm asking for your vote because I believe that the transcendent challenge of the 21st Century is radical Islamic extremism," McCain told a crowd of more than 200 in the suburb of Windsor Heights. "I wouldn't be seeking this office if it were not for that challenge...
Ordinary Canadians benefited from cheaper imports just as those who own basaball teams did. Or they headed south. On a crisp day in December, Lorie de Luca boarded a dawn bus full of cross-border shoppers in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, Ont., bound for Boulevard Mall near Buffalo, N.Y. "I don't shop here anymore," she says, "not when I know I'm going to get better deals...
...design could win a Platinum LEED rating - the highest possible award - but it can't really be described as environmentally friendly if it's part of a sprawling neighborhood that just adds to car dependency. "It doesn't matter how green you are if your house in the suburb still generates 14 car trips a day, which is the American average," says Duany. "But that's complicated to get across, because it's not high-tech...