Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a major player in Chicago's late-1980s building boom and was a generous philanthropist. His wife Marilyn, 58, was a successful and well-known cosmetics executive. On the morning of May 4, she returned from a business trip to find Miglin missing from their three-story brick row house in Chicago's Gold Coast district. Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly scene. Before killing Miglin, someone had wrapped him in plastic and brown paper and wound his face with masking tape, leaving only a hole for his nose. He was then...
...economy, and so it has usually mirrored the country's fortunes. Right now that reflection is beguiling: new construction in Ross County has quadrupled in the past seven years; the average home, which sold for $49,700 in 1989, now sells for $84,200. The pretty downtown brick buildings, hollowed and haunted in the '80s, are being turned into stores with condo apartments on top. "In 1990 I don't remember one ribbon cutting for a new business," says David Milliken, president of the Chillicothe-Ross Chamber of Commerce. "Lately we've had about one every month...
Sarah Kass, who won a Brick Award from Shue's organization for exceptional community leadership, agreed...
...Nixons of Altoona, Pennsylvania, appeared to be ideal citizens. Dennis Nixon, 41, is a successful businessman known for his generosity and consideration. His wife Lorie, 45, is a devoted mother. Their two-story brick home is comfortably middle class and better maintained than most of the other houses on the street. In the backyard are bright-colored swings and slides for their numerous children. The neighbors point out that the Nixon kids always wear safety helmets when they ride by on their new bicycles. And Dennis and Lorie Nixon pray for their kids. They pray all the time...
...appears that the construction in Quincy Square is finally ending. In front of The Inn At Harvard we find quite a beautiful little park--thankfully sedate--which we would like to call Quincy Park. It is a work of granite built on top of the brick sidewalks of Cambridge; its street-wise ramps and stone benches will make it a pleasant part of the environment. In addition, a recently installed row of two-pronged cast-iron street lamps has lent a sense of Victorian charm to Mass...