Word: ground-floor
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Having left the Post to live by syndication in 1982, Martin now works alone in an antique-filled ground-floor office in a town house a ten-minute bus ride from her home. The bookshelves contain a large collection of etiquette books, from The Book of the Courtier to Victorian Vista. Martin devotes one day a week to writing her column on an IBM word processor. Some of her mail, which may be useful later (she has to work two months in advance), gets saved in wooden trays with such labels as Weddings, Business or Diverse Civilities; other letters receive...
Long before an entrepreneur can go public, he needs the private help of venture capitalists, underwriters and assorted ground-floor investors. They are the dreammakers whose cash and advice can mean the difference between survival and collapse for a fledgling company. They often risk big money, but with luck and savvy they can earn huge rewards. Four successful financiers who have helped launch small companies...
...each minister drove up to Begin's stone residence in the city's Rehavya district, his car was whisked away by a security man. One by one, the unknowing politicians were ushered into a ground-floor reception area, only to discover that the place was filling up with colleagues...
...began as a taut suspense drama. A band of hooded, heavily armed terrorists invaded the ground-floor offices of Barcelona's Banco Central, taking some 200 hostages and demanding the release of four army and Civil Guard officers who were under arrest for their roles in last February's attempted military coup. They threatened to kill the hostages and blow up the bank if their demands were not met. After a 37-hour siege, crack squads of special police moved in to capture the terrorists and free the hostages...
...fire was believed to have been caused by an electrical wire that short-circuited above the kitchen of the hotel's ground-floor delicatessen. According to Clark County Fire Chief Roy Parrish, the blaze may have smoldered for at least an hour before spreading to a catwalk on the next floor used by hotel guards to monitor the gambling in the casino. The flames raced along the catwalk and then swept down and back across the casino. Except for the twelve people killed in the casino, most of the deaths took place on the upper floors, when thick, black...