For the smaller fry in the oil industry, the area represents their best chance to get in on the ground floor and reap potentially huge rewards in the future.
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For small investors it will be either a great level-the-playing-field opportunity to get in on the ground floor of promising startups or a federally sanctioned invitation to fraud on a scale not seen since the boiler-room days.
The key to generate wealth will be to identify opportunities early and get in on the ground floor.
He plays Vince Savino, a Chicago mobster who comes to Sin City in 1960 determined to get in on the ground floor.
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By the time they do, it might be too late to get in on the ground floor of what could be a big gainer in future years.
And if it's a little late to get in on the ground floor, there is still the satisfaction of being on one of the lower stories, the mezzanine maybe.
Now, investors looking to own a franchise of a hot new concept can get in on the ground floor with some interesting small chains that are just starting their bid to become national brands.
If I were really an opinion leader (or I had been smart enough to get in on the ground floor), I would surely have tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of followers by now.
Sadly, it was decades before women saw "The Social Network" and realized that by inviting the awkward kid next to them at the cafeteria's gluten-free station to bed, they could get in on the ground floor of a Zuckerberg or even a Winklevoss.
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Or you could hop onto an Internet startup or join a robust tech company and have the potential to get unimaginably rich--not to mention getting in on the ground floor of the New Economy.
The elevator door opened on the next floor and a women looking to get in took in the scene.
This all seems very simple, but the reality is that I can get more relevant information online in five minutes from my smartphone on the showroom floor than I can all afternoon talking with the typical sales rep I come in contact with.
In this case, the digital and the physical fed off each other: The length of the filibuster gave the trend adequate time to get off the ground and talk of the trend on the Senate floor increased interest in it.
To ensure that tax reform gets a fair hearing, he says Republicans plan to create a "fast-track" authority so that the compromise doesn't get bogged down in committees and is assured an up or down vote on the House floor.
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Gordon states that now is a great time to get in on this stock while it is on the proverbial ground floor.
His wife, who was working in the couple's apartment on the second floor, wasn't able to get clear.
"My personal view is that hiring is like musical chairs, and if only the people who are already on the dance floor are playing, then the long-term unemployed can't get in the game, " said Falk, who was laid off four years ago.
Instead, Feinstein could propose the ban as an amendment to the gun legislation on the Senate floor in order to get a vote on it, Reid said.
Wherever Mr. Cuomo settles on the issue, there promises to be a stronger effort than in past years to get the legislation to the floor of the Assembly and Senate.
During his sophomore year in college, he says, white students harassed him and the only other African-American living on the floor in his dorm in order to get them to move out.
The hotel may not be one of the top international brands, but the service and accommodations here are world class not to mention a gigantic, top-floor ballroom without those get-in-the way pillars and on a lower level, an infinity-edge swimming pool.
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"In retail, it's not like you can get a machine to replace someone on the floor, " he says.
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But to get some bill passed on the House floor, Archer suggests, the leadership might actually go in the other direction---layering on even more tax cuts attractive to Republican stalwarts and forcing the tab even higher.
Things that would normally have been left on the cutting room floor, or that would have waited for a sequel get their day in downloadable expansion form.
Dignan says that some shopping malls have started embedding sensors in the floor to track where people walk, and on hangers to register which items get picked up the most.
He was known during his seven terms in Washington as a vigorous defender of Democratic viewpoints, unafraid to get combative whether on cable TV or the House floor, and as a tireless and instinctive politician.
One smaller company will also get a chance to show off its wares, in the form of our Startup Contest, which will put it on the floor alongside some of tech's top brands.
I'd hear him get off the couch and walk to the only phone on our first floor, the one hanging on the wall in the kitchen with the 50-foot-long, tangled cord.
He was known during his seven terms in Washington as a vigorous defender of Democratic viewpoints, unafraid to get combative whether it was on cable TV or the House floor, and as a tireless and instinctive politician.
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