Word: floorings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...work in one of those tall buildings? I think I'd get dizzy,” her friend said. She laughed. I explained that I only worked on the seventh floor, and that it was very stable. I laughed...
...turnaround--hard work, tough choices, heavy investment and a culture "where everyone is expected to lead"--he promised that "we can and will accomplish the same results here." Even if Fiat doesn't become the next Apple, everyone from the President to the survivors on the Jeep shop floor are hoping that he's right...
...Thursday Democrats were feeling pretty good about the vote, though leaders acknowledged that it would be close. "I don't know that we'll get 218 hard yeses ahead of time, but there's a sense that once you put it on the floor the votes will be there," said Representative Mike Doyle, a Democrat who represents a steel-manufacturing district in western Pennsylvania. Doyle was initially leery of the bill, but was brought around by concessions from Energy & Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman. Those changes and other last-minute compromises made to appease Agriculture Committee chairman Collin Peterson...
...which would require a 17% reduction of greenhouse gases by 2020 from 2005 levels and about an 80% reduction by midcentury. A failed vote could be devastating to her embattled speakership. Pelosi spent much of Wednesday and Thursday cajoling her members on the phone, in meetings, on the House floor during votes, even following a member into the Speaker's lobby - the domain of the press - to make her case in full view of a pack of reporters. She also met with seven GOP moderates on Wednesday, extending a rare hand across the aisle. Even former Vice President Al Gore...
...Tokyo's bustling Shibuya district, a woman makes a beeline for the Michael Jackson display on the second floor of the HMV music store. Crying under her green knit cap, she reaches for "Visionary," a black box of video singles from the King of Pop and a few of the Michael Jackson boxed figurines on display. Sho-ma - a dancer whose first exposure to Jackson was the album "Off the Wall" when she was in the third grade - said she first heard the news of Michael Jackson's death at 8 a.m. at her home in Tokyo. Another...