The edifice complex that drove the builders of the Empire State Building helped fuel the bubble that burst into the Great Depression, such that the building sat practically empty for years.

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The building then collapsed and burst into flames.

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Television footage showed shattered windows in a nearby building and flooding from a burst water pipe.

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Three months later, dozens of federal agents, with their guns drawn, burst through the doors of that office building in Herndon, seizing evidence in the United States' ongoing investigation of international terrorist financial networks.

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Regardless of whether there is a building gold bubble about to burst or if new highs are in the pipeline, the pertinent question for jewelry stocks is if demand from gold investors outweighs jewelry buyers.

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In all three cases fire roared up the sides of the building as individual panels ignited and burst into flame.

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With summer in full swing, this week Inhabitat watched the mercury rise as the world's largest thermostat burst forth with an array of 72, 000 building-mounted LEDs.

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There was a burst of shouting from across the street, and the doors of a dark-shingled flat-roofed building opened, letting loose several men, who were jamming caps on their heads and banging lunch buckets against their thighs.

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