When those upper floors began to fall, they forced everything below them to collapse in a "piledriver" effect.

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The U.S. dollar was trading at nearly 96 yen at midday Thursday compared with upper 70s levels last fall.

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Because there are so few women on Wall Street, those that reach the upper ranks only to fall to earth stand out in stark relief.

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Thus the final score card could read as follows: higher tax rates, lower upper class income and public revenues that fall short of estimated targets, even if they do not decline in absolute amount.

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After the May 8th meeting, the ECB president, Wim Duisenberg, said the bank did not expect inflation to fall below the 2% upper limit until later this year, because of recent increases in oil and food prices.

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And yet the sky did not fall in, the pound remained steady and the continental upper lip stayed admirably stiff.

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The blizzard died down, leaving the mountains as randomly covered with snow as if a blind woman had thrown a sheet over them, the upper branches of the forest pines limed, creaking, swollen with the fall.

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The Rosens bought a fixer-upper house on a five-acre lot, and moved in later that fall with their newborn son.

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Voters of Hispanic descent are considered a crucial swing bloc this fall, but Kerry has faced some criticism from Hispanic Democrats for the lack of Latinos in the upper echelons of his campaign staff.

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In his Upper West Side office, Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster, a chronicle of the rise and fall of the bivalve in New York, is couched by a hotch potch of model ships, statuettes of jumping fish, an atlas, piles of novels, foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias and loose papers.

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