On the other end of the floor, the Nets stood listlessly, not talking, distant.
An 85-pound telescope mounted on a computerized base sits in the middle of the floor.
This would have been a definitive test of the role of the floor in modern markets.
For starters, as was mentioned, it required cutting out a huge chunk of the floor.
"I thought he was absolutely terrific on both ends of the floor, " Groce said.
The video shows a cavernous hole that left just the edges of the floor around the bedroom.
"You have to have a go-to player on both ends of the floor, " Syracuse coach Quentin Hillsman said.
There are some fully electronic trading firms looking to hedge their bets on the demise of the floor-trading system.
The rain she had brought in with her dripped through her clothes onto the broken flags of the floor.
More details forthcoming after we pick our eyeballs up off of the floor.
Gold has managed to get itself off of the floor and bounce back into positive territory from a two-year low.
She had earlier told the court that Mr Tobin had been aware of the floor hatch under which Angelika was eventually found.
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On one end of the floor was a pile of the Huguenots, with Edney on the bottom, unaware the shot didn't count.
And they did something really significant on each end of the floor.
In his supermarket, he built a big bandstand right in the middle of the floor and held amateur talent shows and did radio broadcasts.
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Tracing a diagram of his evacuation path on the dust of the floor, he described driving down a narrow road between the rice paddies.
In the midst of the floor, surrounded by paper-strewn desks and computers, a welter of humanity, clothed in yellow, red and blue, dances to an unfathomable tune.
"Everybody is out there trying to replace the former function of the floor broker, " says Steve Sanders, a managing director and head of business development at Interactive Brokers.
So despite lacking a Miami Heat-like team, which often dictates the game on both ends of the floor, Atlantic teams often place a higher priority on one particular thing.
"There's significant opportunity to change the way we do business, " said Richard Schaeffer, mentioning both the size of the floor and its location, in comments during a conference call Tuesday.
We were also treated to a walking tour of the floor using the SMI goggles, which were able to show on a laptop exactly where we were pointing our eyes.
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In his studio, which has great horizontal and vertical windows that take advantage of the sea and sky, a device lifted and lowered large easels into and out of the floor.
After a handful of trips around the carpet, suction slowly fades until you're forced to run over a particle of dirt eight times in order to get it off of the floor.
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Involvement in two dozen new electronic trading ventures could put Goldman at the center of a new financial world--and someday may even threaten the existence of the floor traders and securities salesmen that made Goldman great.
Owner of the flat, James Dillon, 42, who rented it to Mr Parker for several years, identified "two new pieces of flooring that I never fitted" when shown a photograph of a section of the floor.
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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.
Davis, the Wildcats' 6-foot-10 freshman and national player of the year, went scoreless in the first half but still managed to be a force on both ends of the floor: He had nine rebounds, four assists and three blocks.
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As usual proceeding will be dominated by Christopher Chope, the Conservative usual suspect who has mastered the mystic arts of the backbench bill to the point where he has brought dozens of them to the floor of the House.
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