About halfway between San Gimignano and Siena is Monteriggioni, a small medieval village perfectly preserved within its walls, with towers at regular intervals.
"Japanese companies are not required to hire external people to sit on the board, " says Naohiko Abe, a consultant in Tokyo with Towers Perrin.
But the benefits of this so-called safe harbor from the nondiscrimination tests may outweigh the costs, says Elinor Merl, a principal with Towers Perrin.
Some villages are also crowned with towers and ruined castles.
The verticality with towers and mountains.
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He kept in touch with observation towers near the bathing area throughout the day.
Near the main train station, an entire new development called Europaallee is set to be completed by 2019, with residential towers, hotels, restaurants, retail and offices.
At airports with control towers, the FAA needs to study what impact suddenly closing the towers would have on pilots who have gotten used to having them.
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NimbleBits offer a Towers of Hanoi game, which is competing in the market with many other Towers of Hanoi games.
Each suite is a totally self-contained wonderland, with multiple tiered outdoor terraces, spa-like shower towers armed with multiple heads, and each has an ornately tiled private infinity pool cantilevered out over the azure blue sea, featuring jaw dropping views of the famed Piton mountains.
In the next five years 80 high-rise condominium towers with 37, 000 apartments are slated to go up.
From the land, the city looked like an Italian Renaissance painting, on its hilltop with its church towers.
Peek supports a service called Peek Maps that tracks users' approximate locations based on their devices' communication with nearby cell towers.
On the edge of Beijing stands a replica French chateau, complete with turrets and towers, and even its own vineyard and cellars.
The county lacked the electrical grid to supply cell towers with power.
Developer Irwin Molasky, who kicked off Vegas' luxury condo craze in 2001 with his Park Towers Vegas, isn't so sure the boom will last.
Most of the nation's dormitories were built to accommodate Baby Boomers, who didn't mind living in blocky towers with minimalist wooden furniture and communal bathrooms.
During the 1980s he moved into the New York market and built 12 Manhattan office towers with more than five million square feet of space.
As working-age Japanese have left rural areas to seek jobs, urban Japan has sprawled outward, but also headed straight upward, with massive apartment towers rising everywhere.
ReliOn, a fuel-cell manufacturer based in Spokane, WA and focused on emergency-generation applications, reported that one of its customers hit by Hurricane Irene had 56 cell towers with fuel cells installed for backup power.
It took weeks, Mikkelson said, for a European tourist to come forward as the creator of doctored photos of a man on a balcony of one of the World Trade Center towers with a plane bearing down.
They endorse rezoning for increased density permitting, in particular, a cluster of five to six buildings, 700 to 900 feet tall (the Chrysler Building is 1, 046 feet), west of Grand Central around Vanderbilt Avenue, with slightly smaller towers marching up Park.
The project joins a handful of similar planned towers in cities such as Chicago and San Francisco, where developers and investors are putting faith in the recovery gaining steam and forging ahead with speculative office towers planned to open in two to three years.
One of the complications with the MicroCell is that in order to avoid interference with local cell towers, it adjusts how strong the signal that it generates in your house is based on how weak your actual cell signal is at the time of initial activation.
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So we are beginning today discussions with our unions to likely close more than 100 air traffic control towers at airports with fewer than 150, 000 flight operations per year.
As it currently stands, there are 120 vertical towers, with three types of vegetables being grown.
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It's been the site of a market since 1905, but inevitably is now a block of towers stuffed with shopping malls.
But there, right at eye level, stand the tops of the 80-storey bridge towers, with skyscrapers reflecting sunlight in the distance.
Parties end at dawn at which point revellers rest in rustic and cosy tree house accommodations with names like Fawlty Towers and Hotel California.
Wall Street worries that ever more copper-wire customers will quit and switch to cellular, with its expensive transmission towers and subsidized handsets.
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