We also had reports of weaker than expected manufacturing from the New York Fed Empire State Manufacturing Survey and from the Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index.
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The Helmsleys' real estate empire in New York at one time included the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Palace hotel, the Helmsley Building at the foot of Park Avenue and the Tudor City apartment complex in addition to several other hotel properties.
The proposed new company, Empire State Realty Trust, would combine the 1931 skyscraper with 18 other properties.
This week, the release of Revenge of the Sith completes a six-movie, 15 hour sequence in which the trilogy of films released in the last six years (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and now Revenge of the Sith) form a prequel to the original Star Wars films released between 1977 and 83, numbered parts IV-VI (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi).
It seems a development team at MicroProse has been working on Star Trek: The Next Generation--Birth of the Federation, a new Trek-based empire builder built upon the foundation set by MicroProse's Civ II and Master of Orion II.
Now the 44-year-old has received the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the New Year Honours list.
Voter approval represents a hard-fought victory for the Malkins, the New York real-estate family that controls the Empire State Building.
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Mr. Paulson has made a very successful career, an immense personal fortune and an astounding financial empire at the New York-based investment house, Goldman Sachs.
Murdoch's international newspaper empire includes the New York Post, the News International stable of UK titles including the Sun and the Times, and a cluster of Australian papers including the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun.
"In short, the record shows that there is only one Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees, " wrote the judges.
The New York Federal Reserve's Empire State survey rose to 10.04 in February, compared with a negative 7.78 in January.
The New York Federal Reserve's Empire State survey rose to 10.04 in February, compared with a negative 7.78 in December.
The empire: Newspapers (New York Post, Times of London, the Australian), movies (Twentieth Century Fox), television (Fox Broadcasting), books (HarperCollins), sports (Los Angeles Dodgers), cable and satellite TV.
The Empire State Building in New York has increased security personnel by 25% and added baggage-scanning machines at its five entrances to the tune of several million dollars.
As Adam Levitin of Georgetown University Law Centre and Susan Wachter of the University of Pennsylvania pointed out in a recent paper on the causes of the housing bubble in America, it is impossible to borrow the Empire State Building in order to sell New York real estate short.
The Frontiers of the Roman Empire UNESCO World Heritage Site has become the focus of a new online art and design learning resource.
He could even lend a modest air of respectability to the dying days of his presidency by starting to mould a new policy towards the whole of Russia's former empire.
It hasn't been just new projects that are making headlines: In November, even the Empire State Building got a makeover, when the owners installed a new LED light system whose millions of colors can ripple, cross-fade, strobe and burst in time to the tunes of Alicia Keys or a special New Year's show.
The opening words from Cyrus to his new empire are very much what would have been expected of a conquering hero.
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Co-owner Dietrich Mateschitz, the founder of the Red Bull drinks empire, said new rules being introduced in 2010 had forced his hand.
Skanska provides a detailed case study of how they were able to retrofit their New York City headquarters in the Empire State Building and first commercial building in Scandinavia to achieve LEED Platinum precertification.
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It has insisted that the two bodies should stop "empire building" and better inform their staff ahead of the new police service of Scotland coming into effect on 1 April.
While so many travellers, especially honeymooners, want to live out their Sleepless in Seattle fantasies, the view from Rockefeller Center incorporates the Empire State Building (and, really, what is the New York City skyline without it?).
Already, Latin America, freeing itself from empire, had put on the new liberal clothes.
The success of Boardwalk Empire has also inspired new visitors, and casinos and restaurants are capitalizing on this by offering special dining and lodging promotions.
Franco, whose new book "The Crisis of the Vatican Empire" describes the Vatican's utter dysfunction, said cardinals are still traumatized by Benedict's resignation, leading to uncertainty heading into the conclave.
Christian texts in Arabic (or in some cases, Greek and Arabic side by side) provide tantalising evidence of the process by which Christian subjects of the fast-growing Muslim empire began to worship, and theologise, in the language of their new political masters.
The end of the Soviet empire has also required filmmakers to find new categories of villains.
"There is only one Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees, " the judges wrote.
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