Reports from the NRF (National Retail Federation) were far more glowing, including both brick and mortar and online over Black Friday and the weekend.

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In contrast, reducing emissions of the sooty particles known as black carbon, which are given off by inefficient combustion in cooking fires and brick kilns, and by dodgy diesel engines, offers rapid, huge and tangible public-health benefits (see article).

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Half his building (at 9006 Yellow Brick Road, in an industrial park 30 minutes outside of Baltimore) operates in bingo-card black-and-white.

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And so the white widow of a railroad tycoon and a black social worker from Arkansas founded what would become the Urban League, to strengthen our cities and our communities brick by brick, and block by block, and neighborhood by neighborhood, life by life.

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