The company's marketing manager, Lukman, watched from his office on the second floor as the soldiers asked rioters to line up for merchandise.

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During the reconstruction, she and four employees set up a makeshift office on the second floor of the building so they could offer design-consulting services.

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Rahman, the general in charge of the Afghan border police, were already waiting in a large office on the second floor of the two-story building when Prince arrived.

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Over the next two and a half years, my tiny office on the second floor of our white stucco house at 1 Oulad Fares Street became the world headquarters of a far-flung effort to find Arabs who had saved Jews during the Holocaust.

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Last year, I met Prime Minister Thaci in his office, on the second floor of a drab fourteen-story tower in central Pristina.

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The first floor holds an office and some storage and utility rooms and three bedrooms are on the second floor.

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Last fall, I met Gamal Mubarak in his office, a large, sunlit room on the second floor of the National Democratic Party headquarters, in central Cairo, overlooking the Nile.

NEWYORKER: The Contenders

It is a vast and stately room on the second floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

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