Take the elevator to the second floor and walk through a sparsely furnished office suite and you come to a dimly lit, makeshift trading room.

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Women and children have to take the service elevator to get to the courts.

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However, to reach its swank Manhattan headquarters, you take a private elevator to the top floor of the HSBC building.

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"If you have to take Xanax to get on the elevator, you never learn that the elevator isn't something to be afraid of, " says Dr. Josephson.

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One afternoon at the Shangri-La, my wife and kids and I decided to abort a long elevator wait and take the stairs.

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As he moved on to the next part of the tour, I watched quietly as the tour group boarded an elevator that was waiting to take them to their next destination.

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