For instance, in a crowded downtown area the signal can bounce off buildings many times before it hits your antenna.

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The Urban Land Institute panel of planners, developers, architects and financial and government experts delivered its recommendations at a public meeting in a crowded downtown hotel ballroom.

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Mr. Huang has chosen a risky strategy: locating the bulk of the housing many miles from the crowded downtown in the hope that the new towns will eventually develop into new centers of activity.

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The court held that banks would never find suitable places in crowded downtown business districts unless they could have the right to rent out surplus space acquired in a good-faith effort to house their operations.

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At the Super Bowl last month, two people who were infected with measles visited the event's crowded entertainment village in downtown Indianapolis, part of an outbreak totaling 16 measles cases, according to the Indiana State Health Department.

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Downtown Lhasa was crowded with people celebrating a Buddhist festival, it added.

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For the past four weeks lawyers for Bank of America and MBIA Inc. have been sparring in a crowded second-floor courtroom in downtown New York City over whether state insurance regulators should have let MBIA split itself in half in back 2009, separating its business of insuring mortgage-backed securities from its business of insuring municipal bonds.

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Gunfire started around 6:25 p.m. that day, as people were eating dinner in the crowded food court area of the Eaton Centre mall in downtown Toronto.

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