Word: skyscrapersful
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Later, I found another friend pacing his office atop one of the newly built skyscrapers of "Moscow City," the real estate symbol of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ambitions of turning the Russian capital into a new world financial center. Several major companies had already moved out of these costly...
This self-confidence of modern China, and other Asian societies, too, has had profound implications. At the most basic level, it has encouraged a wide-eyed admiration. In 2004, the World Bank held a global conference on poverty reduction in Shanghai, and I remember press reports describing the scene each...
Oxford Economics, which advises the British government, expects 110,000 jobs to be cut in London between this year and 2010--although if the credit crunch is protracted, that number could rise to almost 150,000 next year alone. Real estate is already reeling. Plans for two huge new skyscrapers...
As long as there are mountains and skyscrapers, there will be people who want to jump off of them. The adrenaline rush, that first step off the ledge and into emptiness, the feel of the air as it whips across your face - these are the thrills that jumpers seek, and...
Oxford Economics, which specializes in regional forecasts and advises the British government, expects 110,000 jobs to be cut in London between this year and 2010 as the city's economy contracts - although if the credit crunch is protracted, it predicts that the number could rise to almost 150,000...