Word: floors
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...pick a single eureka! moment, a time when suddenly everything became clear about what the future had in mind for Jeff Bezos, it was on a May day in 1994. The 30-year-old was sitting at the computer in his 39th-floor office in midtown Manhattan, exploring the still immature Internet, and he found a site that purported to measure Net usage. Bezos couldn't believe it: the Internet was growing at a rate of 2,300% a year. "It was a wake-up call," he says. "I started thinking, O.K., what kind of business opportunity might there...
...computer assigns your order--a book, a game and a digital camera--to one of Amazon's seven U.S. distribution centers, five of which it opened this year. With 3 million sq. ft., Amazon has 1.5 times the floor space of the Empire State Building...
...rally, about 30 demonstrators stormed the seventh-floor Holyoke Center office of Roberts, the lead negotiator for the University. They were turned away at the door by Harvard University Police Department officers but continued marching and chanting in the corridor for about 10 minutes...
...street people, kept their eyes on the Russian agent, a second team of FBI agents and personnel from the State Department's office of diplomatic security was covertly scouring the department with a Geiger-counter-size debugging device. An inch-by-inch search of the first through sixth floors yielded nothing. Then a few weeks ago, investigators found a tiny microphone-transmitter on the seventh floor, a short walk from "Mahogany Row," the ornate suite occupied by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her top advisers...
...conspirators, or whether Russian agents simply exploited State's easy-going security policies, which, until August, did not require escorts for diplomats and other visitors. To fabricate the chair-rail molding, match the paint and install it, officials say, Russian intelligence operatives must have gained access to the seventh-floor conference room on several occasions, with sufficient time to take measurements and photographs and eventually replace the molding. And although State Department officials now believe their building is bug-free, they also thought that six months...