Q: My husband and I are debating whether to buy a fairly new home in a not-so-good, distant suburb or a more expensive but smaller and older one in a much better neighborhood.
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SYDNEY — This was a good, if distant, vantage point to view the proceedings in Copenhagen.
Parents tend to apply to local state schools rather than good but distant ones because popular schools take the pupils who live nearest.
I was firmly planted in a VIP standing area with a good, though distant, view of the flag-bedecked inaugural platform.
After all, the urge to acquire goods from distant lands has changed the course of scientific and intellectual history.
Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but, as Peter Dauvergne makes clear, global political and economic processes displace the real costs of consumer goods into distant ecosystems, communities, and timelines, tipping into crisis people and places without the power to resist.
Women and children as well as men might sail off "on a Viking" on the perfectly peaceable premise of trading goods on distant shores (witness the little bronze buddha from the Swat Valley unearthed on a recent dig in Sweden, along with cowrie shells from the Red Sea).
Clinking glasses and distant good cheer from the bar created a steady background.
Down the street, Harold McClam, another neighbor, described Mr. Johnson as "a good person, never distant or anything".
