Word: towered
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...bout of farcical fisticuffs with a, like, 9-ft.-tall martial artist; a wild ride in the taxicab; a decent hand-to-hand skirmish with a female ninja in a Paris casino; a swordfight with Kenji; and a two-against-the-world battle at the top of the Eiffel Tower...
Other members of the team of highly-paid investors that revamped the endowment have also had difficulties as they try to re-work their investing magic outside the ivory tower...
Outside, we encountered André Marino, 26. He had been in the terminal, listening to the air traffic control tower radio, when the plane crashed. An amateur pilot attending private pilot school at the Aeroclube of São Paulo, he said that listening in on tower communications is “almost a sport” for air enthusiasts. He had not heard anything out of the ordinary until the crash...
...with wreaths. "I listen to his music all the time," says Olesya Sergeeva, a 21-year-old student from Siberia who is in Paris on a summer work program. She had headed to the cemetery on her first day off from waiting tables at a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower...
...floor, I can see several other symbols of Dubai, a city-state roughly the size of Mallorca, with only about 250,000 citizens and 1 million or so foreign workers. The most famous is the Burj al Arab, a splendid, sail-shaped luxury hotel as high as the Eiffel Tower. When Sang points toward the hazy waters of the Gulf and says, "That's the World out there," it takes me a second to realize he's not referring to our planet, but to yet another huge real estate development. The World will be a collection of luxury resorts...