Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...renovated Victorian warehouse in the Old Port section of Portland, Me., seems an unlikely setting for an investment firm. Instead of having spacious wood-paneled boardrooms adorned with portraits of famous financiers, the modest offices of Tribal Assets Management feature bare brick walls lined with photographs of Indian chiefs in full headgear. But when Tribal Assets speaks, the Passamaquoddy, Chippewa and Cherokee tribes listen. The company has handled investments worth $250 million for Indians across the U.S., bringing Wall Street wizardry to the world of tribal finance...
...fellows for 1987-'88 will be: Elizabeth J. Bellamy, University of Alabama; Elisabeth Bronfen; University of Munich; Howard Brick, University of Chicago; Marcel Cornis-Pop, University of Northern Iowa; Robert O. Gjerdingen, Carelton College; Susan A. Keefe, Davidson College; Ellen F. Martin, Marymount Manhatten College; Carol J. Oja, Brooklyn College; Frederick S. Paxton, Connecticut College; Frances L. Restuccia, Boston College; Margaret Schabas, University of Colorado; Rhys F. Townsend, Clark University; Daniel Vickers, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Marc A. Weiner, Indiana University...
...early every weekday morning to tend to the spiritual needs of the parishioners of Christ Church in Maidstone, a small town in southeast England. She baptizes babies, conducts funerals, comforts the sick in their homes and in hospital beds, and leads her congregation in prayer in the small, modern brick church. But as a woman, she is forbidden to celebrate the rite of Holy Communion for her flock of 40 parishioners. That central act of worship can be performed only by male clerics in the Church of England, who occasionally neglect even to show up for services. Says Williams...
...School students, faculty, and staff use the public tunnels to travel underground from building to building. Laundry rooms. Coke machines, and bathrooms dot the yellow cement-brick walls, and the steam pipes far above are barely noticeable. People pass through unconcerned by the strange clicking noise can be heard coming from the pipes at intersections. Decorative flagstones pave the floor in some places...
Under the modified plan, the pump will be restored to its origianl working condition, its surrounding bluestone pavement will be refurbished, and a red oak tree will be planted nearby. Plans for the brick garden were scrapped...