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The minivan sped across the circle to the site of the half-built high-rise and quickly set up a firing post from which the militants started to launch rockets and shoot heavy weaponry toward the U.S. Embassy and NATO forces headquarters.
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The minivan sped across the circle to the site of the half-built high-rise and quickly set up a firing post from which the militants started to launch rockets and shoot heavy weaponry toward the U.S. Embassy and NATO forces headquarters.
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Related Cos. bought control of a half-built skyscraper in Chicago's downtown on Tuesday in a bid to restart construction on the site, people involved with the deal said.
New Life for Stalled Project Eliot Brown 2011
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It is half-built, it has great achievements to its name, but its parts are not connected and there are new threats to its foundations.
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However, RREEF America REIT III Inc. and local developer Peter Pau stopped construction of the project in 2009 amid the economic downtown, leaving it less than half-built.
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A medical facility for Doctors Without Borders lay half-built after aid workers said they were told to stop building early this year.
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As part of the deal, he torched his half-built home and seeded the ground with native grasses.
'The Buzzard of Backcountry' Strikes It Rich in National Parks Stephanie Simon 2010
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Regardless, home construction continued through last year, but the recession has left Maui with many foreclosures and half-built and empty homes, says Terry Tolman, chief staff executive of the Realtors Association of Maui.
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Silhouettes of cranes and half-built apartment blocks now rival Istanbul's famous mosques on the city's night skyline, and are the physical evidence of an economy that has grown at an average of 4.4% for the past decade.
Turks look to mobile technology to change bazaar cash customs 2011
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We could have just let U.S. automakers go into an uncontrolled free fall, he said, standing in front of an assembly line loaded down with half-built Jeep Wranglers.
Obama Points to Hiring by Auto Makers Jeff Bennett 2011
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