Word: bricked
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...parable showing that America was still the land of opportunity. The story began in New York City in 1965, when John Mariotta, a diemaker, high school dropout, and the Manhattan-born son of Puerto Rican parents, invested $3,000 to start a small manufacturing company in a renovated brick garage in a desolate area of the South Bronx. Five years later Mariotta struck up a partnership with Fred Neuberger, a mechanical engineer who as a boy had escaped Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. The firm, then known as Welbilt Electronics, struggled to survive, winning only a few small contracts...
...company, which changed its name to Wedtech in 1983, moved to a large, low-slung red brick factory in the shadow of Yankee Stadium. Expanding quickly, it hired more than 1,000 black and Hispanic workers from the neighborhood, a blighted area that had lost 40% of its manufacturing business during the previous decade. Wedtech's profits jumped from $8 million in 1981 to more than $72 million for the first six months of 1986, and the company became a potent symbol of minority achievement. On a 1984 visit to New York City, Ronald Reagan lauded Wedtech's success. "People...
Former Marines like McCloskey point out that Marine guards held back a brick-throwing mob when the embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was burned in 1979. But some say embassy guard duty, which the Marines shouldered in 1949, is unsuited for a group that is supposed to be a well-honed fighting force. Indeed, perhaps the most fundamental problem faced by the Marines, one that affects both their morale and their effectiveness, is that their mission has become murky...
Reagan vowed last week that the Soviets will not be permitted to occupy their new embassy on Mount Alto in Washington until security can be assured for the U.S. in its new Moscow quarters. He conceded that the red-brick U.S. chancery, whose walls are already water-stained because of its unfinished roof, may be so bug-ridden that it will have to be demolished. The entire complex, which includes 114 occupied residential units and recreational facilities, had been budgeted at $89 million. The cost when it is finished, apart from the electronic cleansing, is now projected at $192 million...
...again from Holworthy's laundry room, someone wrote on the wall, "This brick loves me. It can love you too--for $50,00." Someone wrote back "someone is paying $60,000 to educate...