• This contemporary three-storey hotel is known for its breezy indoor-outdoor public areas and spectacular views of the Sydney Opera House through floor-to-ceiling windows and balconies.

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  • Now, let there be no doubt, it will take an unprecedented effort on all our parts -- from the halls of Congress to the boardroom, from the union hall to the factory floor -- to see the auto industry through these difficult times.

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  • Designers then came up with a spacious, wide-open cabin that looks out through a giant floor-to-roof windshield.

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  • The third floor, where fifth- through eighth-graders have classes, now sports a French Quarter-meets-Mardi Gras theme.

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  • Premier Central Park View rooms and suites on the 43rd to 54th floors have superb parade views through floor-to-ceiling windows.

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  • Situated on the 23rd floor of the Mandarin Oriental, which graces the entrance to Vegas' CityCenter, Twist provides dramatic views of the Strip through floor-to-ceiling windows.

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  • The floors throughout are a polished gray concrete and the walls are white, while light floods in through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

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  • Behind the statue and through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows on a large terrace is an enormous Deborah Butterfield bronze horse that looks like it's made from driftwood.

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  • He bought an electric saw and some lumber to patch the second-floor gallery, but every time he was halfway through a board a fuse would blow in the spider-haunted circuit box in the kitchen.

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  • They were both able to scramble through a first-floor window to relative safety, where they watched as more giant waves continued to roll in for the next 90 minutes.

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  • But I gave in to the resort's do-nothing siren song, spending the mornings snorkeling in the lagoon and the broiling afternoons in my over-water bungalow, watching candy-colored fish through my floor, moving to my deck as shade began to cross it, eventually descending the steps to bid the parrot fish good night.

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  • On Monday, the display drew a line of spectators that wound through a whole second-floor gallery into a museum hallway.

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  • Between bites of coriander-scented lamb or squab with foie gras, take in the iconic Wrigley Building clock tower and Tribune Tower through the 30-foot floor-to-ceiling windows.

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  • The Sy family not only operates the malls but also controls 30% of the floor space, either through their own in-house retailers or through their franchises of such stores as the U.S.' Ace Hardware and Hong Kong's Watson's drugstores.

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  • The real draw to this place is the lower floor, where pillow-strewn couches overlook the Herengracht canal through its many windows.

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  • Though most milongas do include an impressive invitational performance from professional dancers mid-way through the evening, the dance floor is open for improvisation the rest of the night.

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  • At only .63 millimeters long it's tough to spot even on Journe's hospital-clean floor, but the minuscule screw has already gone through five separate polishing operations, so you don't just reach into the box for another one.

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  • NYSE's floor-based trading system, in which shares are bought and sold through a few firms known as specialists.

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  • The fire started on the ground floor - which was reportedly used as a warehouse - and quickly spread through the building.

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  • In his nineteenth-floor office on this cold, blustery Monday, Bernie Madoff starts going through the motions.

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  • The space converts to a dance floor for roller-skaters, with a DJ hovering above in a see-through pod.

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  • That will happen - is happening - when their economies collapse and domestic prices and wages fall through the floor.

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  • Fifty feet beneath the sea, Bimini offers an array of shipwrecks, shark dives, swim-through caverns and tunnels and colorful coral heads resting on the ocean floor.

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  • There had to have been scenes with both Janssen and Mol that were left on the cutting room floor, and the stuff that's there just points up the glaring lack of follow-through.

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  • The family, despite their grief, eventually decided it was time to go through the old man's stuff, which was piled high in a second-floor bedroom that was always kept locked.

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  • In October 2000 the floor of a 72-acre wastewater reservoir built above an abandoned mine in Kentucky collapsed, sending black sludge through the mine and out into a tributary of the Big Sandy River.

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  • Stand in an orchard as the glow of late afternoon is filtered through the laden branches, sending a lattice of pale shadow onto the fruit-covered floor, and it is easy to understand why the orchard holds an elevated place in British mythology.

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  • The 740, 000 square-foot (69, 000 square-metre) building has a 1, 960 foot long main assembly floor, with a railway line running through the door handy if you are making locomotives.

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  • The test well, Jack-2, delved through 7, 000 feet of water and 20, 000 feet of sea floor to tap oil trapped in tertiary rock laid down 60 million years ago.

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  • Sasha was adjusting her yellow eyeshadow in the mirror when she noticed a bag on the floor beside the sink that must have belonged to the woman whose peeing she could faintly hear through the vault-like door of a toilet stall.

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