He would begin well before dawn, in a quiet office above Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

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Working from a quiet office park across from a railroad terminus in Richmond, Calif.

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The office is eerily quiet.

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The office seemed almost eerily quiet and untroubled, a room full of stylish people wearing headphones and instant-messaging one another.

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Rugged on the inside, the Hitachi Travelstar Z5K320 drive gives the G-DRIVE slim superior operating shock protection and quiet acoustics for use in the home, in the office or on the road.

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But he hasn't, as you know, been quiet for the whole time that he's been out of office.

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Her claims that "wee, quiet families" were suffering because they were easy targets for the Home Office were rebutted.

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He craved the quiet security of academic life but repeatedly abandoned it for the risks and tumults of public office.

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Since taking office, Merkel has won respect on the world stage and popular appeal in Germany for her quiet diplomacy.

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The best time to do that is often during quiet periods, or, as some business owners prefer, on a mini-retreat away from the office.

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To see how Hartmann plans to meet these challenges, we called on him in his spacious office atop Veba's modern steel-and-black-marble headquarters building in a quiet Dsseldorf neighborhood.

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