Power is slowly returning to Venezuela tonight after widespread outages left almost half the country in darkness, and trapped people in elevators, stalled subways, filled streets with pedestrians and forced...
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" STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The electrocution of a fat rat in an electric station Saturday caused a three-hour power outage in Stockholm's central train station, halting elevators and escalators....
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""Across the UTC, all of our products convert energy to useful work, and new designs are much more efficient than traditional ones. For example, Otis elevators that regenerate electric power when loads descend and operate with one quarter of the power otherwise needed.
"Or...
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""We are very pleased to have won an order for the Shanghai IFC building, which will surely become a beacon of Shanghai's thriving economy," Pekka Kemppainen, KONE Area Director for Asia-Pacific.
"We are happy to work with Sun Hung Kai Properties Group on this order, which...
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"Another Firefighter Testifies On Explosions Inside WTC
We Are Change | August 8, 2007
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Firefighter John Schroeder, assigned to Engine Company 10 directly across the street from the World Trade...
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The global measuring contest continues: Builders of the Emirates' newest skyscraper are laying claim to the title of World's Tallest, before construction is even complete. The estimated height of the completed...
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"Jeannie Riggs lines her balcony South of Market with cactus to deter vandals from climbing up and breaking into her apartment.
Leslie Clark, who uses a wheelchair and lives on the eighth floor of a Tenderloin building, says he gets stranded when the elevators break down."
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