Hopping out of the taxi at the Starbucks there after an amazingly quicker ride than normal in the still relatively empty streets, I took up elevator up Tower A to go see Feng Deng, who heads NLVC.
There are four famously-lengthy lines (tickets, security, elevator up, elevator down) but there are just as many ways to avoid them.
The elevator up the spire is manually operated and represents its progression in feet, not floors.
He refused to let another Lehman employee ride in his private elevator up the Lehman executive floor.
Balancing strategic and tactical items can be challenging, the same way coming up with an elevator pitch your grandma can understand is a challenge.
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The Giants' signal-caller had just been awarded his second shiny Super Bowl MVP trophy, and as he rode an elevator up to collect the new Corvette that went with it, he said none of it would have happened without Coughlin's version of rookie boot camp.
It's all so soothing: UBS porters usher multimillionaire Brazilian farmers up the private elevator, the corporate head of communications is off on vacation, and an elite cadre of UBS trainees, flown in for a seminar, is getting whisked away from the elegant Hotel Steigenberger Bellerive au Lac for another night of fine dining.
Imagine being in an enclosed elevator accelerating up through space, he conjectured in one of them.
New equipment orders in its Otis elevator unit was up 19% from a year ago, while new commercial HVAC orders at Carrier increased 11%.
Once completed, Nobu Hotel will have 180 rooms, 16 suites, a private elevator bank leading up to the hotel tower, a separate check-in area and its own service staff.
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It travels through air vents and cracks in walls, along ventilation and elevator shafts, and up stairways.
But at mid-priced brands like Crowne Plaza or Residence Inn, you might have to scurry down the hall to the elevator bank to pick up a copy.
It had great views, but required a lot of climbing: it was spread over four levels up a long staircase from the elevator, with some floors connected only by a cast-iron spiral staircase.
After gathering all that information together they create a slide-show, a write-up, a stock template and quick elevator pitch of the company.
The restoration, led by the government and the Hong Kong Heritage Conservation Foundation, has retained its old-world charm while adding conveniences such as a nifty elevator that rises at an angle up the bluff on which the hotel sits.
Work is slow along the 525-foot-wide route to Umm Qasr's grain elevator, where the Dredge Carolina chews up the mud with its 3, 000 horsepower cutter and suctions out the loosened silt.
He found the appropriate elevator bank for his floor and pressed the up button.
He's rigged up a catapult to his mini-fridge, a tiny elevator to carry the beers activate a doll with a remote control - and voila, a beer-tossing machine.
The octagonal Midtown Manhattan condo is 8, 000 square feet stretched across three floors, with a private elevator and 360-degree wraparound terraces 73 floors up overlooking Central Park that are supposedly the highest in the city.
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As I walked toward the elevator choking back tears, my boss told me to pick him up a Starbucks coffee while I was out.
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Founder Michael Laine has resurrected the company and taken to Kickstarter to drum up interest (as well as a little cash) in his latest project -- a lunar elevator.
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From the late afternoon to early evening, an elevator outfitted with regen will generate power continuously as lightly loaded and often empty elevators ascend to pick up office workers and crowded elevators descend as workers stream out of the building.
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Before he arrived in Austin, O'Neal and Tout joined up for a "Pitch Shaq" contest in which they invited registered SXSW attendees to submit 15-second elevator pitches about their startups.
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