1.   And they provide a background for understanding what was sacrificed by the suburban exodus of the postwar decades.

2.   Bouncing along the bottom indefinitely, caught between healthy growth and recession, would be a new American experience in the postwar decades.

3.   In the postwar decades, the wife provided many of the services.

4.   In the early postwar decades, we seemed to be advancing effortlessly toward this perfect society.

5.   In the postwar decades, markets seemed infallible as incomes rose, wealth grew and technology advanced.

6.   Many critics and musicians take the view that the innovative drive that characterized the festival in the immediate postwar decades has dried up.

7.   Our postwar sensibility emerged over three decades as a result of the Great Depression, World War II and the early postwar decades of heady prosperity.

8.   Rather, it has become equivalent to the notion of progress in the postwar decades.

9.   That higher productivity was at the heart of the prosperity in the early postwar decades.

10.   The city has been coasting on a reputation it earned in the postwar decades.