Word: suburbanization
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Residents seem to most fear the arrival of suburban sprawl. To buy groceries here, people must drive to neighboring Ayer or Leominister--and they like that just fine...
...Imation, based in a former 3M office building flanked by cornfields in suburban St. Paul, separation from the 3M way of doing things represents not only a threat but also a chance to shine. In addition to slashing costs, chairman and chief executive Bill Monahan vows to create a lean, quick-strike culture that tailors its products to the needs of its customers. "Anybody and everybody will be interacting with the customer," he says. Monahan's ambitious goal is to post a total of $150 million in "economic profit"--defined as operating income after taxes and deductions for the cost...
...word where a fancy one will do, coming across like the class jock who would rather be perceived as the class brain. That's partly why some say Jack Kemp tries too hard. But the point is, he tries, and never stops trying. Through nine terms in Congress from suburban Buffalo, New York, and four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Bush Administration, Kemp was that rare, even unique thing in Republican politics, an economic and social conservative who yearned to genuinely make the Republican Party the party of Lincoln by embracing minorities, union workers...
Many plans also may, and should, change over time. Some ideas will work; some will not. Plans that succeed in rural or suburban areas may fail dismally in big cities. Welfare mothers who are easy to place in jobs during prosperous times may be next to impossible to put on payrolls when recession strikes. Some may lose jobs they found earlier and go back on the dole. And some of the many experiments that states have already begun, under waivers of the old law that the Clinton Administration has been granting liberally, may point the way for others...
...years ago my parents moved from a suburban tract house where, even with yards, neighbors are just a stone's throw away, to a house (though still in suburban California) on three-quarters of an acre and backing up to a horse trail...