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  • Cops on Harleys; Secret Service gunboat SUVs; Army aviation overhead butter-knifing through the air, scaring off the news choppers; Agency handlers, gofers, commo experts, and upper-floor reps, the whole train about a mile long, tying up traffic for hours.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • At the moment furry arms and hands were working from upper-floor windows, hastily pulling laundry off the lines amid much muttering and grumbling.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • About 65,000 square feet of upper-floor space that had been occupied by Bear Stearns Cos. was left vacant in 2009, more than a year after J.P. Morgan Chase

    Raising the Dead in San Francisco 2010

  • Cops on Harleys; Secret Service gunboat SUVs; Army aviation overhead butter-knifing through the air, scaring off the news choppers; Agency handlers, gofers, commo experts, and upper-floor reps, the whole train about a mile long, tying up traffic for hours.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • This upper-floor storage space in one building of the "mahalla Sethian" or Sethi quarter of Peshawar was the resting spot for what remained of the Sethi merchant documents in 1996.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • Mr. Barker of Barker Pacific said demand for upper-floor space with views of the Golden Gate Bridge is rising.

    Raising the Dead in San Francisco 2010

  • Staley/Wise typically shows photography in its upper-floor SoHo home, but this weekend the gallery will host a show of paintings, all made in the last year.

    ARTINFO: NEW YORK: Can't-Miss Gallery Openings This Week 2010

  • Staley/Wise typically shows photography in its upper-floor SoHo home, but this weekend the gallery will host a show of paintings, all made in the last year.

    ARTINFO: NEW YORK: Can't-Miss Gallery Openings This Week 2010

  • Mr. Barker said the venture is offering about $60 a square foot to fund prospective tenants 'buildout of upper-floor space.

    Raising the Dead in San Francisco 2010

  • In the weeks following the assassination, a story was passed throughout the detail that even the president himself had commented on how easy it would be for someone to assassinate him from an upper-floor window.

    The Kennedy Detail Gerald Blaine 2010

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