He also noticed that his allotted wall faced the city's tallest building at the time, City Hall.

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Wall Street faced pressure over fears of a massive flu outbreak, pulling the Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.9%, or 72.24 points, to 8, 004.05 afternoon, while the Nasdaq composite index dropped 1.1%, or 18.42 points, to 1, 675.87.

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This is especially true with corporations that are faced with quarterly pressures from Wall Street.

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It faced neither the scrutiny of Wall Street nor government overseers.

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Italy's difficulties are not unlike those faced by the countries of Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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The property faced a four-lane highway, but Serenola was tucked behind a brick wall and a modest electric gate.

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Yet recent events in the financial markets add some weight to Mr Skilling's story though today's credit crunch creates a far more hostile environment that the one Enron faced and nobody is (yet) alleging the sort of fraudulent behaviour on Wall Street that apparently took place at Enron.

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Ravi, to his right, pushed his desk against the side wall, so that his back was to Clementi and his computer screen faced the room.

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Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm notes in the Wall Street Journal that by the time the housing market collapsed, Fannie and Freddie faced three regulatory quota mandates.

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