An Associated Press article this week notes that the city of Newark, NJ, staring into a budget abyss, sold 16 city buildings to developers and investors, including the Newark Symphony Hall and police and fire headquarters.
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Of the 22 outstanding grievance cases, almost half relate to Fire Service headquarters in Lisburn.
In Ismailia, protesters set fire to the headquarters of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In January, there was a fire at group headquarters, while in December of last year a lorry was driven into the same complex.
In Cairo, the protesters ransacked one Brotherhood office, while in Mahalla in the Nile Delta the Islamist movement's headquarters was set on fire.
Shafiq's campaign headquarters was ransacked and set on fire.
While behind bars, his party was split by infighting and its headquarters in central Cairo were set on fire.
The MVD headquarters in Moscow quickly concluded that the fire was not the result of arson, but it still opened a criminal case against Avtovaz management on tax evasion charges several days later.
In addition, when we were not in front of the front line intercepting the communications, we were either at the battalion headquarters or the division tactical headquarters, which are major targets for any enemy artillery fire.
In February 1999 the office that was in charge of compiling and pursuing the investigation of Avtovaz--the MVD headquarters in the provincial capital of Samara--was destroyed by a huge fire.
On Sept. 27, 1972, just a year after joining France's oldest ad agency, Levy dashed into the firm's still-smoldering offices after a fire and rescued documents and magnetic tapes that would keep Publicis in business while its splashy Champs-Elyses headquarters was rebuilt.
The Kabul headquarters of the aid organization CARE International still reeks of scorched wood nearly a week after rioters set fire to the building.
"As of this hour, the information that we have is that the cease-fire is holding in North Kivu (province), " Kevin Kennedy told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York at noon.
Speaking at the IMF's headquarters in Washington, Mr Strauss-Kahn also described the current economic situation as between "ice and fire".
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