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  • Two weeks ago at a topping-off ceremony for his Red Building at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, he celebrated the culmination of a design process he began in 1971.

    J. Michael Welton: Cesar Pelli's California Cathedrals J. Michael Welton 2011

  • When prospective buyers and brokers meet for a topping-off party there later this week, they will find a building —the first example of new construction in Dumbo's nearly-four-year-old historic district—that is unerringly contextual, but also elegant, and even at some points, whimsical.

    A Departure From McMansions Robbie Whelan 2011

  • Note which fluids need topping-off or replacing and make CERTAIN you replace or add to them with the vehicle-maker's recommended liquids.

    Steve Parker: Getting Cars and Trucks Ready for Winter Steve Parker 2010

  • Note which fluids need topping-off or replacing and make CERTAIN you replace or add to them with the vehicle-maker's recommended liquids.

    Steve Parker: Getting Cars and Trucks Ready for Winter Steve Parker 2010

  • A martini glass as albino as my concoction of the other night was soon wafted down in front of me, exact to the topping-off drizzle of raspberry liqueur.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • VELEZ-MITCHELL: Dr. Dale Archer, from a psychological perspective, what does it say about this individual -- that they went -- or individuals, it could be plural, that they went to the length of topping-off the shallow grave with concrete?

    CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2009 2009

  • At a topping-off ceremony for his Beekman Tower yesterday, 80-year old architect Frank Gehry took to the podium and made one of those slightly randy jokes that men can get away with when they're 80.

    Frank Gehry Will Wait to Ascend His Own Tower 2009

  • A martini glass as albino as my concoction of the other night was soon wafted down in front of me, exact to the topping-off drizzle of raspberry liqueur.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • A martini glass as albino as my concoction of the other night was soon wafted down in front of me, exact to the topping-off drizzle of raspberry liqueur.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Regarding the death of well over half-a-million Iraqis, the majority of the citizenry of The Corporatists States of America have experienced a comparable degree of regret and remorse that their oligarchic overlords experience when topping-off the tanks of their corporate jets with fuel purchased with money plundered from their employee's retirement accounts ...

    Selling Satan: Iraqi War Dead and the Collateral Damage to America's Soul 2006

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