Where you ended up more familiar with the number of acoustic tiles in the ceiling than the number of points in the outline of the speech?
The early influence of French Art Deco aesthetics can be seen in the stained-glass ceiling of the ballroom in the otherwise largely Beaux Arts-style old French Sports Club -- now the Okura Garden Hotel -- as well as in some other interior flourishes.
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In the sun room, for example, where Mr. Ye kept the traditional blue-gray-black wall paintings, the workers decided to save money by using plastic in the ceiling blinds instead of the wooden slats Mr. Ye had requested.
Santia Consulting Ltd issued a statement on Friday saying the source of the asbestos contamination in the school "still remains in place consisting of substantially damaged asbestos insulating boards (AIBs) in the ceiling voids, damaged AIB in the room heaters and repeated damage of AIB window panels within classrooms".
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We are also the global leader in the manufacture of ceiling suspension systems and are recognized as the premier acoustical panel and specialty ceiling systems innovator.
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My guess is that whereas when a Japanese company made an acquisition the foreign executives immediately hit the equivalent of a glass ceiling, in the case of foreigners in a Chinese company, it's going to be easier for them to move up the ranks.
C. could prove supportive to the yellow metals in the weeks ahead if policy markets again push the US government up against its debt ceiling limit in the name of political partisanship.
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Where a debate in Congress over the necessity of raising the federal debt ceiling is a symbol of the worsening faith that investors have in U.S. debt.
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Dykes told Creel that the built-in ceiling protected against the possibility of wet ground above, Creel said.
Also in the sale were more than 30 life-size casts of fish, which Entwistle caught in the Caribbean and which were suspended from the ceiling of his Gloucestershire home.
The consequences, as Secretary Geithner and many others, including the Speaker of the House, Senator Minority Leader, Congressman Ryan have pointed out, the consequences of not -- of failing to raise the debt ceiling would be Armageddon-like in terms of the economy on -- the impact on interest rates, on job creation, on growth would be devastating.
The appointment of the third woman Supreme Court Justice will be another crack in the glass ceiling that, for thousands of years, has kept women out of the leadership strata.
And in terms of the debt ceiling, we also believe, as members and leaders of Congress of both parties have said, that it has to be raised because the effect of defaulting on our obligations as the United States of America would be calamitous to the domestic economy and to the global economy.
Madoff was found by his father-in-law hanging from a ceiling pipe in the living room of his SoHo loft.
The question is, with most of the GOP already deeply invested in using the debt ceiling as leverage to force a spending reduction without ridding our tax code of perverse elements of corporate welfare, can they still be brought back from the brink?
Legal reform itself has a role to play in breaking through the glass ceiling of corruption toward achieving the rule of law.
It has also seen a new building built behind the original listed facade and the restoration of the domed ceiling in the Picton Reading Room, which was constructed in 1875.
In the light of the ceiling bulb I saw my reflection, standing with a cloth over his shoulder and looking out at me as if ready to hurl himself into whatever the day might bring.
The Monetary Authority will enforce an 80% limit on mortgage loans -- the ceiling in Hong Kong is 70% of the property's assessed value.
It was considered the supportable ceiling for sovereign debt in the old days of higher interest, but current 100% levels of debt to GDP require low interest rates or the sovereign goes into default.
The Treasury blamed this delay on an unprecedented volume of participation by small investors, on failure of Congress to act in a timely fashion on the debt ceiling legislation in April, and on an unanticipated failure of word processing equipment used to prepare check schedules.
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That political thinking, plus the memory of the debt ceiling crisis in 2011, are two reasons why there is such a confused view of the fiscal cliff, he says.
What Chuck and I and I think many people are curious about is this new, adamant desire on your part not to negotiate, when that seems to conflict with the entire history in the modern era of American Presidents and the debt ceiling, and your own history on the debt ceiling.
One is raising the debt ceiling -- this is a problem that was manufactured here in Washington, because every single one of the leaders over there have voted for raising the debt ceiling in the past -- and has typically been a difficult, but routine process.
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Peraino is referring to a new study conducted by the Center for Work-Life Policy that offers insights into why a very clear glass ceiling remains in the upper echelons of corporate America.
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At the rate the country is going now, the country will hit the debt ceiling again at some point in the second half of 2012, just in time for Democrats and Republicans to blame each other in time for November elections.
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But in the case of the debt ceiling, if Republicans think they will escape blame for a default, they are delusional.
The CEO had ignored my attempts to keep the conversation on topic, and mid-way through I was fervently wishing for an ejection seat that could have launched me up from that table through hatch in the ceiling, and safely out of that conversation.
One of those past agreements -- to increase the debt ceiling in 2011-- included the mandatory spending cuts that cut across all agencies of government but not entitlement programs.
There are toys scattered in the waiting room, cartoon pictures of sweet-faced lions and tigers on the walls, and floor-to-ceiling rows of paper charts in the chart room.
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