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Inside, the vehicle is the ultimate in bling-chic, with electric curtains, massaging seats, plasma TVs, racks for glasses, decanters and – most importantly of all – a safe in which real estate or coal mining barons can store the sky-scraping piles of banknotes that drive their businesses.
Boom in Luxury Cars Sales Driven by the Super-Rich in China | Impact Lab 2010
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A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope.
365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Along the way they climb a beanstalk that looks like a sky-scraping strand of DNA, encounter a baby goose noticeably smaller than the golden eggs it lays, a mother goose with the dimensions and disposition of King Kong, and Kitty Softpaws, a sexy cat burglar—that is to say, a cat who burgles, preferably by picking pockets— played by Salma Hayek.
'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders Joe Morgenstern 2011
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A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope.
365 tomorrows » Teslapunk : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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When Dominic Barton, managing director of the global consulting firm McKinsey & Co., flashed before-and-after slides of Shanghai at the Liberal thinkersâ conference in Montreal this afternoon, the room let out a collective gasp: the fusty skyline of only seven years ago replaced by the glint of sky-scraping boom.
John Geddes 2010
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Usually, this kind of affiliate program offers a very low first-tier payment but a sky-scraping second-tier affiliate commission.
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The impossibly statuesque Corey Scott-Gilbert and Keelan Whitmore, with their sky-scraping arabesques.
Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster 2010
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The Bolshoi's calling-card in this mode is Grigorovich's Spartacus, a butch sword-and-sandals spectacle that wows audiences with sky-scraping lifts and big, dam-busting bounds.
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Drawing from over 40 years of Marvel comic books for inspiration, “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark” spins a new take on the mythic tale of a young man propelled from a modest rowhouse in Queens to the sky-scraping spire of the Chrysler Building, the bustling offices of the Daily Bugle, through the dizzying canyons of Manhattan, to new vistas never before seen.
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