Word: suburbanization
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...Forbes tries a second time for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, he is rubbing a lot of those shoulders. After he settled into a black Chevrolet Suburban last June for a drive with the Rev. Louis Sheldon, the ultraconservative founder of the Traditional Values Coalition, Forbes endured an hour-long grilling. The preacher asked for Forbes' view about abortion (against), school choice (for), and the "homosexual-rights agenda" (against, but no harassment, please). "I was a doubter," says Sheldon. "The stereotype from the 1996 campaign was that Steve Forbes was clearly pro-choice and clearly libertarian." Sheldon emerged...
...wanted to be someone I was not: the average American. Every Thanksgiving during elementary school, I would come home from New York's Thanksgiving Day Parade and watch football, imaging content Middle-Americans watching the game while preparing for enormous family dinners in houses with backyards on tree-lined suburban streets. In short, I wanted to be Alex Keaton, the Midwestern, capitalist, conservative, all-American teenager portrayed perfectly by Michael J. Fox (a Canadian, incidentally) on "Family Ties...
...year-old METCO program's original purpose was to provide exchange opportunities for students between urban and suburban schools. Just last September, the program's first study revealed the major impact of the program in the Boston community...
...Parents say once their kids go to suburban schools they [themselves] become extremely involved in the school," he said...
METCO Directors, Sheryl Goodloe and Cheryl Prescott, and Jeff Young, superintendent of the Lexington public school system, spoke of the advantages METCO has provided to the participating suburban school communities by increasing minority representation...