Word: suburbanization
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Looking up, we gave thanks that there were no clouds early Monday morning above suburban New York, just a quiet night sky dotted by dozens of twinkling stars. It appeared to be a good night for viewing the prizes of the heavens...
...glad I had stayed home an extra day for Thanksgiving break. As close as we live to New York City, the pollution which would have made night viewing difficult in Cambridge or Boston was not present in the suburban skies above our town...
...next two hours, he stumbles through a London nighttown of despairing, inarticulate souls, watching with embittered eyes and delivering mordant, nonstop opinions on everything from Homer to Nostradamus to the Berlin Wall. When last seen, he has been severely beaten and is limping down the middle of a suburban street in an eerie dance to nowhere. As he says, there are plenty of places to go, the problem is where to stay. In the moral and spiritual sense, Johnny is truly a homeless...
...Give Racism the Boot." That politically correct advertising slogan, combined with environmentally conscious products, has turned Timberland Co. of Hampton, New Hampshire, into a hot marketer and a torrid stock. With customers from suburban professionals to inner-city youths clamoring for its rugged boots and outdoorsy apparel, Timberland last month reported the strongest third-quarter sales and profits in its 20-year history...
...whole United States (including urban, suburban, and rural areas), there were 758 violent crimes and 5,139 property crimes per 100,000 people in 1991. Cambridge statistics were 1,006 violent crimes and 5,324 property crimes per 100,000 people for the same year...