Another innovation: square tiles of light that could replace fluorescent office ceiling lighting.
If a movie like The Heat can open like a genuine blockbuster , then it will be further proof that the upper-realms of box office has no real glass ceiling.
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His office is framed from floor to ceiling in glass, with modern art on nearly every wall.
Whoever gets voted into the Oval Office in 2012 will have to revisit the debt ceiling issue again and again, until the economy gets moving sufficiently to bring in more tax revenues.
The top floor houses the master bedroom, closets, a bathroom and a home office, and has a 15-foot-high ceiling with exposed wood beams.
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We were sitting at a conference table in his large, airy office above Times Square, which features floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the Hudson.
Saskia Sassen, co-chair on the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and a leading expert on smart cities, draws parallels with the office buildings of the sixties, which she describes as "low-ceiling places now standing sad and empty as advanced technologies render them useless".
Vatican police officers gave evidence that when they searched Mr Gabriele's study in his home, they found one large cupboard stacked from floor to ceiling with a disorderly jumble of documents taken from the Pope's office over a period of years.
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The graffiti will disappear as the raw basic structure is covered with drywall, ceiling panels and paint for tenants moving into the 3 million square feet of office space by 2014.
The White House budget office noted in September that sequestration was designed during the 2011 standoff over raising the federal debt ceiling as "a mechanism to force Congress to act on further deficit reduction" -- a kind of doomsday device that was never meant to be triggered.
"Those of us who grew up before Margaret Thatcher was even in Downing Street can sometimes fail to appreciate the thickness of the glass ceiling she broke through - from a grocer's shop in Grantham to the highest office in the land, " he said.
At the Taipei office of The Wall Street Journal, the quake was felt for at least 15 seconds, shaking the ceiling violently enough that it squeaked.
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