These people are sitting in air-conditioned offices, making policy for soldiers who are in the field.
Chairs are placed around a big television so shoppers can watch football matches in air-conditioned comfort.
These new rich go out to restaurants, drive cars and buy the latest fashions in air-conditioned malls.
Residents in Boston can cool off in parks with water spray features or in air-conditioned community centers across the city.
They're urged to drink plenty of water, reschedule strenuous activities, stay in air-conditioned rooms, stay out of the sun and check in on relatives and neighbors.
It's a world away from carefully planned Asian cities like Singapore -- which makes it perfectly suited for visitors who don't need their lives hermetically sealed in air-conditioned shininess.
There has been a slight fall in the number who reckon they are at either the very top or the very bottom of the pile, consistent with the move to working behind desks and in air-conditioned places.
Developed economies are built on easy access to cheap energy, importing goods that are transported from around the world, with consumers driving many miles to work in air-conditioned offices and then flying off to sunny climes for their annual holidays.
"I'm loving it, " said Ms. Nawaz, a 39-year-old mother of three, as she was driven in an air-conditioned SUV between appearances in Lahore.
During a visit on Thursday, a tiger Mr. Ali identified as Sandra was sleeping in an air-conditioned shed, just as Mr. Ali treated visitors to Coca-Colas in a stuffy room, complaining of frequent power outages.
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At Idrees Ahmed's farm on the outskirts of Lahore, Sandy is kept in an air-conditioned den.
The water itself is kept at a comfortable 68F (20C), in an air-conditioned room.
He got up in the morning and he had his breakfast and he went outside and he's laying down in his air-conditioned grotto outside taking it very easy, completely unaware of the hard work that Mei Xiang has done all night.
The duo traveled the country in a non-air-conditioned pickup truck in sweltering heat doing interior jobs.
The National Weather Service advises residents to wear lightweight and loose-fitting clothing, drink plenty of water, take frequent breaks in shaded or air-conditioned environments, stay out of the sun and check on relatives and neighbors.
Lemme take you back to the fifties in pre-air conditioned Venice.
When these traveling capitalists gather in over-air-conditioned hotel conference rooms to hear motivational speakers, they are looking to get a little adrenaline rush to keep their creative juices flowing and find new ways to build trust with the people around them--ways to establish "collaborative relationships, " "two-way dialogues, " "enduring partnerships"--or whatever thelatest buzzwords happen to be.
If I were to log several hours in my non-air conditioned kitchen, this is what I had to look forward to.
The growth in the number of air-conditioned homes, which has made indoor TV viewing bearable regardless of the temperature outside, is among them.
It went on to become the first hotel in Mumbai to be equipped with a lift, and the first in India with an air-conditioned dining room.
You likely live in the comfort of an air-conditioned space with access to ample energy supplies.
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Interiors are paneled in teak wood and both air-conditioned bedrooms boast private baths.
When restrictive foreign exchange laws held up the completion of New Delhi's first modern hotel that was fully air-conditioned in 1965, he secured a loan from the U.S. Ex-Im Bank.
Indoor skiing in the desert is just one more eccentric, nature-defying contradiction in gilt-edged, Dubai, which also boasts air-conditioned golf, chilled swimming pools, over-the-top resorts and scores of skyscrapers, including one under construction at 160 stories that is to be the world's tallest.
Buildings are routinely over-air conditioned in the summer, lights are left on at night, computers hum all weekend long.
For years, the Super Bowl has been played in the sort of cozy, air-conditioned environment that only a handful of NFL teams get to enjoy.
Yet this has not presented a problem until recently, as supercomputers came out of national laboratory blockhouses, into massive air-conditioned buildings in corporate headquarters, later onto millions of desktops, and now into millions more pockets in mobile devices.
Relief is in sight for some: from 2010 air-conditioned trains will begin to appear on the four sub-surface lines.
Owners inevitably paint the exteriors in a cheerful riot of bright red, green, orange, blue and yellow and line the un-air-conditioned cabs with teakwood to keep them cooler in India's searing heat.
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