To address safety concerns, the play areas are usually surrounded by a 4-foot-high wall, with foam-padded floors and only one exit.
He rarely used it at his high-tech Wall Street trading firm.
And while a young Liverpool player's ambition may be scoring in front of the Kop, a prospective young slugger making it through Boston's minor league system will probably have dreamt of hitting a home run over the "Green Monster" - the famous 37ft high left-field wall at Fenway.
Do we try to build a 50-foot-high sea wall all around the eastern coast, including Tokyo Bay?
Mud sucked at their boots as they ran alongside a ten-foot-high wall that enclosed the animal pen.
The new stadium's signature will be a 400-foot-by-40-foot-high rectangular wall featuring murals of players to fans outside the stadium.
The exchange-traded fund (ETF) market is a prime example of a good product that has been high-jacked by Wall Street.
He said that the 12-foot wall protecting their high-voltage wires was two feet short of the floodwaters.
How much longer can they stubbornly hold on to the high Wall Street-pleasing payouts?
Hanging there, waist-high on a wall, are a clutch of trophies and wreathes, all won for scything grass.
When Pipeline Chairman Alfred Berkeley III spoke to Steve Forbes in an Intelligent Investing interview in March, Berkeley described the intelligence game with high-frequency traders on Wall Street.
After the market closed Thursday, Morgan Stanley announced that co-President ZoeCruzZoe Cruz was retiring, making her the latest high-profile executive on Wall Street to be pushed to the exits in the wake of losses in the credit markets.
After the market closed Thursday, Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) announced that co-President Zoe Cruz was retiring, making her the latest high-profile executive on Wall Street to be pushed to the exits in the wake of losses in the credit markets.
Expectations are so high that even hard-boiled Wall Street types are now ascribing magical powers to Steve Jobs.
Leeds City Council has removed his name from an inscription on a wall commemorating high-profile citizens at the city's Civic Hall.
And Leeds City Council has taken Savile's name off an inscription on a wall commemorating high-profile citizens at the city's Civic Hall.
The DFW center includes a high-tech classroom with a wall-size touch screen where firefighters can walk through layouts of planes and familiarize themselves with seats, doors and cockpits.
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The Public Theater's LuEsther Hall venue, where the show opened Tuesday, has been transformed into a beaming night club with strobe lights, flat-screen displays, wall-to-wall digital projections, artificial smoke and a DJ perched high above the dance floor.
Every day at high tide a 5-foot sea wall surrounding the reinforced home is buffeted by waves.
Trevor Ariza hit a career-high seven 3-pointers on his way to 25 points, and John Wall added 24 points and 16 assists in helping the Wizards rally from an 18-point second-half deficit to win 103-100 on Friday night.
Improvements could include attic and wall cavity insulation, high-efficiency windows and appliances, duct-sealing, or rooftop solar.
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It's a long way from the childhood bedroom with a few posters tacked to the wall, or the high-school hangout carved from a wood-paneled basement.
Meanwhile, a number of high-profile bankers -- especially from Wall Street -- are expected in Davos, after shunning last year's event, in an attempt to avoid the unquestionable hostility directed towards their sector.
Those fifty-two-inch high-definition plasma televisions that people hang on the family room wall these days cost five times what a top-of-the-line set would have cost ten years ago, but buyers are willing to shell out the extra money because the enhanced viewing quality is worth the price.
For Wall Street's erstwhile high-fliers, it will be an unsettling one.
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Wall Streeters typically keep the high-end real estate market buoyant in New York, and indeed prices in the city have resisted the national weakness, at least until recently.
It provided a peek under the hood at the engine that made Wall Street purr, the high-rolling casino where both the house and the players won the majority of the time.
But the cost-cutting focus is now expanding to deal makers and corporate advisers that have remained among Wall Street's most high-profile professionals even as their contributions to banks' bottom line has been dwarfed by traders.
In a page-one article Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Haim Bodek, who helped run a high-frequency trading firm, told SEC enforcement officials last year that he believed exchanges were giving certain sophisticated trading firms special advantages that helped them beat out other investors.
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