Word: suburbanization
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Larson lives and works in a spacious Tudor-style house in suburban Seattle. His artistic sensibility invades his home: a papier-mache python winds through the living room, and a bright green Paraguayan tree frog croaks in a terrarium. At Christmas a wreath festooned with a rubber chicken hangs on the front door. Larson, clad usually in T shirt, jeans and running shoes, carries sketchbooks wherever he goes, doodling and jotting down phrases. But the hard labor takes place at the drawing board overlooking Union Bay, where he sits and stares, and stares and sits, until the ideas flow...
...immigrant brothers who operated a succession of popular delicatessens and restaurants in the city. Boesky was known from childhood for his intense desire to excel -- almost to the point of not knowing when to stop. Recalls Roger Boesky, a second cousin who attended the same prep school, Cranbrook, in suburban Detroit: "He had this capacity for single-mindedness. He drove himself mercilessly as far as exercise goes," performing hundreds of push-ups at a time...
...models and equipping old factories to produce them. During that time, Chrysler plans to rebuild aggressively its share of the auto market to nearly the level it claimed before the company's slide in the late 1970s. At Chrysler's 1987-model preview in September at Texas Stadium in suburban Dallas, Iacocca announced that the company aims to boost its share from 11% to 15% at the rate of about 1 percentage point annually...
Even so, in the few hours a day that Boesky spent at home, he lived in baronial style. He and his wife maintain a costly apartment overlooking Manhattan's East River but spend much of their time on a 200-acre estate in suburban Westchester County, where guards patrol a laser-controlled entrance gate to the property. Inside the Georgian-style house, paintings by Monet and Renoir adorn the walls, and valuable works dot a nearby sculpture garden. Recently Boesky applied to local town planners for permission to add a dome to the residence, to give it, said his architect...
...spite of Ramos' timely gesture, Aquino's headaches are not over. At week's end a bomb exploded in a suburban Manila theater, injuring 18 people; it was the sixth such attack in the capital area in less than a month. Police blamed the attack on N.P.A. guerrillas. As President Aquino struggles to put her country on a firmer political footing, unequivocal support from her armed forces chief may well prove critical...