Word: suburbanization
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...Dagwood Bumstead types, the old-fashioned manual lawn mower was a suburban symbol of dread. Among modern-day gentry who want to get a little exercise and avoid fouling the neighborhood with noise and exhaust pollution, however, the motorless mower is making a quiet comeback. Sales of reel mowers by the American Lawn Mower Co. of Shelbyville, Ind., reached 100,000 last year, a 47% increase over 1986. Average price: less than $100, in contrast to $250 or more for motorized models...
When I returned to good old suburban high school U.S.A. that fall, I was restless. After a taste of college life I found it impossible to slip back into the old high school grind...
Armed with a bag of apples, he aims his Chevy Suburban through the gates of $ his huge Spanish-style home in McAllen, Texas, and heads north for his ranch in the rangeland. McAllen lies in the Rio Grande valley, just above the Mexican border, but its architectural boot print owes more to Los Angeles than Lonesome Dove. The city is a sprawling network of commercial strips, trailer parks and low-slung shingle-and-stucco developments ringed by citrus groves and cotton fields. If you think this overworked stretch of real estate is an unlikely habitat for Africa's black rhinoceros...
...fights since he arrived in Congress in 1979, outspokenly intent on changing the tone of the Republicans' minority- party congeniality. He repeatedly clashed with Wright's predecessor, Tip O'Neill, and has survived two attempts by the Democratic congressional campaign committee to target him for defeat in his suburban Atlanta district. While he awaits what is sure to be a protracted ethics inquiry, Gingrich will go on fighting. "If we get rid of Wright but keep 99% of the other Democrats, we've accomplished nothing," he says. "I'm ready for more action...
...phone, the alumni shared career crises--some denied partner status, others yearning to switch jobs, many balancing child-rearing with work. They shared family concerns--making payments on their first suburban home, divorcing, paying hospital bills. These are circumstances that we'll encounter as well. But the difference between a Harvard education for this class and the alumni before us is not to be found in mundane events...