Their policy on public place smoking is that they support the creation of smoke-free areas but that a ban on all indoor smoking in work and public places goes too far.

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But start-ups have to find indoor physical space to work, if for no other reason than New York's weather.

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Since 2010, Qualcomm has filed at least eight patents related to indoor positioning, including work touching on Wi-Fi hotspot triangulation and motion tracking via sensors.

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Like Google Maps, WiFiSLAM and other new indoor navigators require some advance work.

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Their indoor rooms may contain examples of work inspired by such modern masters as Le Corbusier, Breuer and Starck, with prints by Warhol and Matisse.

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The external structure of the Olympic Stadium has been built, the dynamic curving roof of the Aquatics Center is more than halfway complete, and work is "progressing well" on the Olympic Village, the Velodrome indoor cycling venue, and the main press center, officials say.

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Only when I developed empathy for my local employees, thanks to numerous stomach conditions, nasty bed bug bites, and asthma from indoor air pollution (from cook-stove smoke), did I begin to make some progress at work.

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