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The term " hoosier " began to take on its negative connotation in St. Louis during the mid-1950s when the Chrysler Corporation built a large automobile assembly plant in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton and closed a plant it had been operating in Indiana.
Although Mutley Plain is the main street of the dense suburb called Mutley, the term is often applied to the whole area.
The term " suburb " can thus retain its original connotations as a commuter area on the fringe of a metropolitan area, but older " suburbs " that are long-established and urbanized can now be meaningfully referred to as the " outer city.
The Australian and New Zealand usage came about as outer areas were quickly surrounded in fast-growing cities, but retained the appellation suburb ; the term was eventually applied to the original core as well.
In Russia, the term suburb differs from the American term, but also differs from the Western European term.
In China, the term suburb is new, although suburbs are already being constructed rapidly.
The term alludes to the affluent Melbourne suburb of Toorak and was used at least as early as the late 1980s.
* " Beautiful downtown Burbank " ( various actors / characters, referring tongue-in-cheek to the Los Angeles suburb in which the NBC studios ( and thus the program ) were located ; the same term was frequently used by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ).
In colloquial usage, the term often refers to an inner city neighbourhood, a suburb or a suburban neighborhood.
It has been suggested that the term ' Junglist ' was a reference to a person either from a ghetto of Kingston known as ' The Concrete Jungle ' or from a different suburb, ' The Gardens ', which was a leafy area colloquially referred to as ' The Jungle '.
Acheulean (; also Acheulian ) ( from French acheuléen, a term based on the name Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens, the capital of the Somme department in Picardy, where hand-axes of this period were found in 1859 ), is the name given to an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture associated with early humans during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia, and Europe.
The Italian, Spanish, French and Swedish words for suburb ( suburbio, suburbio, banlieue and förort respectively ) often have a negative connotation similar to that of the English term inner city, especially when used in the plural.
Human Rights Watch reported Friday, February 27, 2004, that during Philippe's term as police chief of the Port-au-Prince suburb of Delmas from 1997 to 1999, international monitors " learned that dozens of suspected gang members were summarily executed, mainly by police under the command of Inspector Berthony Bazile, Philippe's deputy.
In contrast to the term topsoil, the term " father soil " is used suburb like.
The term Arthurs Seat was first applied to the mountain, then to a squatting run, next to the pre-emptive right and recently to a suburb.
" Edge city " is an American term for a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional urban area in what had recently been a residential suburb or semi-rural community.
In Southern Ontario, the term " 905er " ( a reference to Area Code 905 ) has come to have a similar, derogatory meaning for the suburb area surrounding Toronto-proper, including areas such as Pickering and Oshawa.
Although most closely associated with the electric streetcar, the term can be used for any suburb originally built with streetcar-based transit in mind, thus some streetcar suburbs date from the early 19th century.
As such, the term is general and one development called a streetcar suburb may vary greatly from others.
The suburb derives its name from a local Indigenous Australian term for " pigeon ".
Traditionally occupied by the higher-income bracket, especially on its " Northern Slopes " ( a term that refers to the part of Remuera north of Remuera Road ) the suburb has become regarded as the stereotypical retreat of the rich in Auckland. The term ' Remuera tractor ', for example, is a common nickname for upmarket SUV vehicles.

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`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.
The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..
Resentment welled up yesterday among Democratic district leaders and some county leaders at reports that Mayor Wagner had decided to seek a third term with Paul R. Screvane and Abraham D. Beame as running mates.
She had been sentenced to 180 years in prison, but former Gov. Stratton commuted her term to 75 years, making her eligible for parole, as one of his last acts in office.
Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.
As had been the case on Bligh's tour 20 years before, the Australian media latched fervently onto the term, and, this time it stuck.
However, his term was marked by economic depression that had grown out of the Panic of 1873, which Mackenzie's government was unable to alleviate.
The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.
The Council of Nicaea did not end the controversy, as many bishops of the Eastern provinces disputed the homoousios, the central term of the Nicene creed, as it had been used by Paul of Samosata, who had advocated a monarchianist Christology.
Both the man and his teaching, including the term homoousios, had been condemned by the Synods of Antioch in 269.
But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.
Today, many Ainu dislike the term Ainu because it had once been used with derogatory nuance, and prefer to identify themselves as Utari ( comrade in the Ainu language ).
The President had measurable support to run for a full term and he was amenable to the idea.
It is unlikely that the term " democracy " was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of a valid " demarchy ", as the word " demarchy " already existed and had the meaning of mayor or municipal.
The term is rarely used by younger black people, but remained in use by many older black Americans who had grown up with the term, particularly in the southern U. S.
Previously, as related in the first reference cited above, Faraday had used the more straightforward term " eisode " ( the doorway where the current enters ).
The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.
The concept was that because Italian bond futures had a less liquid market, in the short term Italian bond futures would have a higher return than U. S. bonds, but in the long term, the prices would converge.
During Clinton's term, Arkansas performed its first executions since 1964 ( the death penalty had been re-enacted on March 23, 1973 ).

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