Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From his podium in front of the imposing brick facade of Aldrich Hall, Rubin outlined the mission he foresees for the HBS class...
...Gelson's Markets, an upmarket grocer in Los Angeles, shoppers can order a brick-oven pizza or a chinois chicken salad at an in-store Wolfgang Puck's To Go and dine by a roaring fireplace in a cozy corner of the market--a move that would have once seemed about as down-market as getting ready for a date at the makeup counter at Macy's. The Ukrop's chain, based in Richmond, Va., has been selling prepared meals since the mid-'80s. Today 45% of store space is devoted to selling 130 takeout items, which are freshly prepared...
Often, such talk does eventually lead somewhere--to hills, rivers and other open spaces without brick walls or paved paths. Though the club no longer enjoys the same popularity that it did in the '80s, it still plans about two outings a month...
Last Tuesday the shame disappeared. Gillette is unveiling the Mach3, the three-bladed wonder these three engineers had often glimpsed but never captured. Giddy for men of their age and earnestness, they exhibit their high-tech gizmo in a small, unadorned office in a brick, Industrial Age building in South Boston topped with Hollywood-style letters spelling out WORLD SHAVING HEADQUARTERS. John Terry, the elderly, thick-glassed British engineer whose team came up with the design for the successor to the twin-track Sensor, cradles the prototype between his thumb and forefinger as if it were a Honus Wagner. Terry...
...attended his funeral, where they remembered him as a "family person, a husband, a father, and a Marine." Clearly, John Kelly made friends easily, and these friends did not wish for his name to be forgotten with the passage of time. On October 28, 1985, the three-foot high brick structure bearing his brass plate was unveiled amid a spectacular ceremony, complete with band, flag-draped platform, military color guard, and a proclamation from then-Governor Michael Dukakis. At the event, a friend of the family perfectly summed up Kelly as "a true American...