Word: suburbanization
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...know how to help and being frightened because one of the people asking for help may hit you on the head," says Michael Zeik, 64, who runs a gauntlet of beggars at New York City's Grand Central Terminal on his frequent visits to Manhattan from his suburban home...
...about four times as many women as men, usually appears in the early 20s. But the malady has been diagnosed in children as young as nine. Child Psychiatrist William Sonis of the University of Pennsylvania, who in a 1985 survey found that 6.5% of 1,000 students at a suburban Minnesota high school had SAD, says that too often "the symptoms are attributed to school-related issues, like the seventh- or tenth-grade slump." Or they are ascribed to behavior problems. "The most prevalent symptom among children is irritability," says Sonis. "Kids said they picked fights and they didn...
...significant not for what he does but for what he dreams and fears. But a movie like this, which concentrates on mundane plot, can only show, not reveal. As directed by Hector Babenco (Pixote, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Ironweed lurks outside Francis' soul, like a tramp at a suburban window, permitting only dumb speculation on his fertile inner life. His ghosts are white-faced extras; his trek up Calvary becomes one long trudge toward oblivion. The movie provides a mug shot instead...
Last week the game came to a sudden end, the result, said Brigadier General Ramon Montano of the capital's defense command, of "plain detective work." As darkness fell on Las Villas de Valle Verde, an exclusive residential park in suburban Manila, 35 soldiers raided a town house in the enclave. Battering in windows and pounding their automatic rifles against walls, the squad rounded up the elusive Honasan and three associates as some of them relaxed over a meal. Some soldiers in the raiding party saluted as their captive was led away...
...Superintendent, we have jobs for your young people. If they can read or write, we'll hire them," Wilson said businesses have told him. He said businesses will recruit in suburban school districts or Boston private schools if no qualified students are found in the public school system...