Word: suburbanization
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...giving includes psychological and philosophical counseling offered in easy-to-take capsule form. The advice was first dispensed in sermonettes over the counter at his church in suburban Seattle. The Rev. Fulghum also wrote a column for the church's mimeographed newsletter, handed out every other Sunday. Some of the reflections enjoyed a modest afterlife, fixed with magnets to refrigerator doors or folded up and carried around in wallets and pocketbooks. But one message made its way over suburban boundaries and vaulted into the national consciousness...
This was heady stuff for a young attorney, but Turow had something else on his mind as well. On his half-hour train commutes from his suburban bungalow, he had begun a novel, jotting scenes in a spiral notebook. Given these conditions, the book lurched along fitfully, and Turow often felt that Presumed Innocent would never be finished. "Eventually Annette told me to quit my job and get that book out of my system." He took the late summer of 1986 off and submitted a manuscript two weeks before reporting for work at his new firm. "I hoped that...
...Augustine grass-supply industry, have formed a cooperative venture that has obtained a license to begin cultivating FX-10. Since the grass does not proliferate rapidly, it will take a few years before growers can build up a big supply. But once FX-10 is in place on suburban lawns, the slow growth rate will offer several advantages to homeowners. They can skimp on fertilizer and will have to mow the grass no more than twice a month. And they may be able to throw away the sprinkler...
Other types of contractors have been hammered hard. The construction firm Arthur Rubloff Real Estate and Capital Inc. recently abandoned plans to build a $1 billion commercial and industrial park in suburban Chicago because the company could not obtain a loan. Even developers in Southern California have been feeling the pinch. "Unless you have a couple of lead tenants signed up," says Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles area Chamber of Commerce, "lenders don't want to talk...
...many admit that even the most committed parents may be overwhelmed by unexpected problems. In 1986 Dan and Rhonda Stanton adopted a blond baby girl they named Stacey Rene. "We thought we had a perfect baby because she didn't cry," says Dan, an insurance agent in suburban Dallas. Their contentment faded as the months passed and Stacey did not develop properly. She didn't babble and laugh like their friends' babies and couldn't pinch with her individual fingers. The tentative diagnosis: Rett's syndrome, a rare genetic disorder in which the brain stops growing. Devastated, the Stantons took...