Word: foyers
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Over the years, the SOG has taken on some of the CIA's most dangerous work. Paramilitary officers account for almost half the 79 stars chiseled into the wall in the main foyer of the agency's Langley, Va., headquarters commemorating all the spies who have died since the CIA was founded in 1947. The newest star is dedicated to Spann. But the CIA suffered additional casualties in Afghanistan and some injuries that the agency has not yet publicly acknowledged. A CIA officer was wounded by a bullet in the chest during a fire fight in southern Afghanistan...
...Quincy House, the foyer has been temporarily converted to Cambridge’s Ward 8, Precinct 3 polling station, manned by a half-dozen City of Cambridge election officials...
...really love the idea of a beautiful foyer that opens all the way through to the back of the house," says James Atkins as he rhapsodizes about the 8,000-sq.-ft. home he is building in Folsum, La., an hour north of New Orleans. The foyer features a fountain at the center of an intricate spiral staircase. The house will have a media room, a wall-size aquarium, five bedrooms, plus all kinds of ideas that he has collected in 10 years of exploring the real estate landscape...
...Drop by unannounced on old pals Warren and Annette. Wait in foyer half an hour, leave card, sit in car another half an hour. Think I hear noises upstairs. Must be the kids. Drive home...
Additionally, one must wonder why the exhibit was not even given a proper room. A foyer must be one of the worst possible places to hold any show. Psychologically, it suggests that the exhibit is an afterthought, that it did not warrant a special area. Logistically, it creates crowd control problems besides threatening the coherence of the exhibit itself...