Word: suburbanization
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Steep Nazareth in a bright sun. The 60,000 Arabs here are Israeli citizens, but the character of the town is distinctly Arab, with winding streets and souks. The Jews live on an opposite hill in modern houses with broad streets that might have been transplanted from suburban America...
...make a substantial cultural statement. People in their 20s have been handed down everyone else's music, clothes and styles, leaving little room for their own imaginations. Mini-revivals in platform shoes, ripped jeans and urban-cowboy chic all coincide with J. Crew prep, Gumby haircuts and teased-out suburban perms. What young adults have managed to come up with is either nuevo hipster or ultra-nerd, but almost always a bland imitation of the past. "They don't even seem to know how to dress," says sociologist Hirsch, "and they're almost unschooled in how to look in different...
...domestic programs have attracted more criticism -- or a more ferocious defense -- as White House and congressional negotiators try to assemble a $50 billion package of new taxes and spending cuts to reduce the federal deficit. A growing though still small alliance of free-market, suburban Republicans and big-city Democrats is pushing unprecedented changes in the 1990 farm bill that comes to the House floor later this month. The reformers, led by Congressman Dick Armey, a Texas Republican, and Representative Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, would end federal payments to farmers with adjusted gross incomes...
...situation is a marked turnaround from 1986, when unemployment topped 12%, U-Haul trailers streamed out of the city, and foreclosures were rampant. Today the area has regained 77% of the 220,000 jobs it lost; unemployment has been whittled to 5.3%; and suburban condos that sank in value to as little as $5,000 have rebounded to more than...
...suburban Chicago electronics giant (1989 sales: $9.6 billion) hopes to put in place by 1996 a network of 77 satellites that can relay phone calls to any spot on the planet. That means when the boss has a question, no Himalayan mountaintop or African jungle encampment will be beyond the reach of the ringing phone. Named Iridium, for the chemical element whose nucleus is orbited by 77 electrons, the Motorola plan would constitute the first global cellular system. Calls would cost $1 to $3 a minute, compared with about 50 cents a minute for cellular calls within urban systems linked...