Word: suburbanization
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...direct, honest way of selling goods and services," he says. "You can see the product, get a lot of information about it, and order it with no- nonsense swiftness. Compare that with going to a suburban mall. It's getting close to being...
Clinton used his appearance before 60 people in a suburban Detroit television studio to dampen expectations of a middle-class tax cut. Meeting with business executives the next day, he floated the idea of a hike in the top corporate tax rate, currently 34%, as well as a broad-based energy tax. But the President backed away from hints that he might seek a one-year freeze on Social Security cost of living adjustments, after trial balloons to that effect caused a predictable uproar among the elderly and their friends in Congress. Clinton called on Americans to hear the "alarm...
...most active spying on U.S. companies lately has not been by agents from old cold-war adversaries. Instead, the spies are employed by allies, including Germany, South Korea and even Canada. Among the most relentless -- and efficient -- have been the Israeli secret services. Last year Recon/Optical, a suburban Chicago military contractor, charged the Israeli air force with trying to steal the blueprints for a top-secret airborne spy camera. The Israelis agreed to settle the case by paying $3 million in damages. The French intelligence service recruited moles in the European branch offices of IBM, Texas Instruments and other...
...Rosenfeld, the alleged MODsters and their ilk do not fit the standard image of a hacker: the wealthy, suburban geek who trespasses on computers just for fun. These cyberpunks are ethnically mixed (from blacks and Hispanics to Italians and Lithuanians), favor close-cropped hip-hop haircuts and live in urban, blue-collar neighborhoods. They fight rival gangs with cheap computers, not sticks or knives. Some are big drug users; most are simply addicted to what Rosenfeld calls the "adrenaline rush of computer power, which is better than sex, drugs or rock 'n' roll...
...division between the afflicted and the comfortable was clear to Pulitzer. He knew who the little guy was, and who was in power. But newspapers today cannot be so certain who is comfortable and who is afflicted. Charles Stuart at first appeared to be an innocent suburban victim of urban violence. After his body was fished our of the Mystic River, he became a calculating villain, intent on fanning the flames of racial hatred...