Word: suburbanization
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Motorola has been one of the most pugnacious U.S. companies in trying to enter the Japanese marketplace. The suburban Chicago company's efforts paid off last week in a double win. Against a field that included Japanese bidders, Motorola won the $35 million annual contract to install a cellular-phone network for the Tokyo area...
...fallout has spread across the U.S. Michael Foreman, president of a small Atlanta development firm, has vainly hunted for a year for financing to build suburban homes. Says he: "The banks are not only stingy with their loan money; they are downright unreasonable. I have got no cooperation whatsoever...
...people think this is a problem only of big inner-city hospitals, they are wrong. They may be dead wrong," says Dr. Stephan Lynn, the director of the emergency department at Manhattan's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. It is true that there are healthy suburban hospitals that have been largely spared the city's crises. But many rural hospitals are also swamped with trauma cases: farming, fishing and forestry are the most dangerous occupations in America. Isolated from major urban centers, rural hospitals are struggling to recruit and train emergency physicians and to pay for the sophisticated trauma networks...
Tragos adds that since Harvard products are now available "in every suburban shopping mall," there should be an incentive to come to Harvard Square. "Business is bad in Harvard Square. There's no parking. All the merchants had a terrible winter. Why do they need to raise prices?" Tragos asks...
...blue denim, brown leather and black suede. But one suspects that among all the fire eaters and street jugglers, there are more drug peddlers than artists in this crowded scene. "Terrible people," says one old-timer, speaking of Les Halles the way New Yorkers speak of New Jersey. "Terrible suburban gang kids...