With its gleaming white marble floor, minimalist decor and crew of white-gloved waiters bearing trays of lemon tea, the sales office at Lodha Fiorenza looks more like a plush salon than something makeshift on a construction site where a tall crane stands next to half-finished towers.

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Its two cofounders and some of their high school crew slept on mattresses lining the floor of a garage next to their one-room Palo Alto office.

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And police confirmed the ambulance crew found the Russian oligarch's body on the floor at his home in Ascot, Berkshire.

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One evening a few weeks ago, several members of a television film crew crammed themselves into a tiny examination room on the seventh floor of the Research Medical Center, in Kansas City.

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In a Bristol Beaufighter of RAF Coastal Command, Wing Cdr Gatward and his crew flew over the main streets of the capital at the level of third-floor windows.

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It reveals itself to the Warren Miller crew not only as a mountain vista viewed through groves of palms and pomegranates from the valley floor in Marrakech, but also as great cirques and vast skiable terrain in the High Atlas itself.

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