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  World Trade Center
The World Trade Center was a complex of several buildings around a central plaza, near the foot of Manhattan in New York City.
1993 World Trade Center bombing: On February 26, 1993, a bomb planted by terrorists exploded in the underground garage of the north tower, opening a 30m hole through 4 sublevels of concrete.
The twin towers and 7 World Trade Center, an adjacent 47-storey building, collapsed in a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, when two commercial jetliners were deliberately crashed into the twin towers.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wt/WTC.html   (942 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: World Trade Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The World Trade Centers Association is an organization of nearly 300 World Trade Centers in almost 100 countries.
The twin towers and 7 World Trade Center collapsed in a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, when two commercial jetliners were deliberately crashed into the twin towers.
The World Trade Center will be replaced by the 1776 ft (541 m) Freedom Tower and the Memory Foundations complex of buildings.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/read.php?offset=150&id=323&sortby=   (1912 words)

  
 World Trade Center - MSN Encarta
World Trade Center, complex of seven commercial buildings in New York City, demolished by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
The best-known buildings of the World Trade Center were twin skyscrapers designed by American architect Minoru Yamasaki with the firm Emery Roth and Sons.
Tenants and visitors left the buildings by stairways, but not everyone was able to escape.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701505572/World_Trade_Center.html   (994 words)

  
 World Trade Center Tenants Disperse According to TenantWise
The properties of the World Trade Center ("WTC") that were destroyed or damaged represent a total of 34.5 MM sq.
While 80 of 114 tenants from damaged properties that have the option to return Downtown have said that they are returning to their spaces once buildings reopen, many are not moving quickly to do so.
TenantWise.com has made assumptions about government tenants, smaller tenants' and tenants whose relocation plans are unknown, and predicted the relocation of all tenants representing the total 34.5 MM sq.
www.rebuz.com /research02/0102/world_trade_center_tenants_disperse.htm   (1430 words)

  
 New York Architecture Images- World Trade Center
Two World Trade Center, the south tower, was hit by a similar hijacked jet 18 minutes later at 9:03am.
A memorable event in the life of the World Trade Center came in the summer of 1974, while the still-unfinished (and largely unrented) towers were courting financial disaster and facing a barrage of architectural and social criticism.
The World Trade Center was an achievement for all humankind.
www.nyc-architecture.com /GON/GON001.htm   (2807 words)

  
 ITworld.com - U.S. stock markets to reopen Monday
Trading was stopped Tuesday after hijacked airliners slammed into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building in Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. A fourth hijacked airliner crashed in Pennsylvania.
In addition to making sure their computer systems are tested and running for the return to trading, some of the exchanges also must deal with the loss of facilities where hundreds of employees worked and thousands of traders did business.
Some of the largest financial firms that trade on the exchange were located in the two World Trade Center towers, or nearby buildings, and have been displaced to temporary facilities.
www.itworld.com /Tech/2987/IDG010914markets/pfindex.html   (627 words)

  
 9|11 - The Strange Images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Counterarguments: The respective photographer of the photos had adjusted his camera somehow not correctly to the airplane and the sunshine, or all strangeness is based on optical illusions, caused by the lighting conditions and the low resolution of the footage.
Counterargument: During the collapse of the two World Trade Center towers there were earthquake like tremors with the strength of 2.3 on the Richter Scale.
The two made their way to the parking garage, but found that it, too, was gone.
members.fortunecity.com /nineeleven2001   (8293 words)

  
 World Health Organization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Headquartered in Geneva Switzerland the World Health Organization (WHO) is an agency of the United Nations acting as a coordinating authority on public health.
In addition their work in eradicating disease the WHO carries out campaigns – for example to consumption of vegetables worldwide or adopting a negative stance tobacco – and conducts research: for instance whether or not the electromagnetic field surrounding cell phones has a negative influence on health.
World Health Organization: Tumours of the Breast and Female Genital Organs (edited by Fattaneh A. Tavassoli and Peter Devilee) is the 4th in the Pathology and Genetics of Tumours series from the WHO.
www.freeglossary.com /World_Health_Organization   (472 words)

  
 World Trade Center - History - Minoru Yamasaki - Great Buildings Online
This is an additional article page for the World Trade Center, telling a little-known story of the planning and politics behind the original WTC, from the perspective of one of the planning professionals participating in the process.
The Trade Center project was widely denounced as a supreme example of self-glorifying monumentalism on the part of unaccountable, autonomous public authorities.
Meyner demanded the two projects be considered separately, arguing that the trade center benefited New York alone, while both states received advantage by the takeover of the Tubes.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/World_Trade_Center_History.html   (4373 words)

  
 Tenants scramble to cope with blast - Sep. 11, 2001
The World Trade Center offices were not the company's main offices and handled mainly back-office functions.
Morgan Stanley also has its main offices elsewhere in Manhattan, but it was the largest tenants in the center in terms of floor space, with about 3,500 employees based there spread over 22 floors in Tower 2 and three floors at Five World Trade Center, a smaller building in the complex.
At another firm with offices at the World Trade Center, Alger Capital Management Vice Chairman James Connelly said that the company's chairman, Fred Alger, is alive and in Long Island, but that he hadn't heard from a majority of the people who worked at company's Trade Center office.
money.cnn.com /2001/09/11/news/wtc_tenants   (875 words)

  
 World Trade Center History
A world trade center was first proposed in 1960 by the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Development Association to revitalize seedy "radio row," dominated by electronic stores.
Building the World Trade Center took 200,000 tons of steel, 425,000 cubic yards of concrete, 600,000 square feet of glass, and 12,000 miles of electric cables.
They were the world's tallest buildings for only a short time, since the Sears Tower in Chicago was dedicated a month later.
www.public-action.com /911/jmcm/wtc1.html   (980 words)

  
 World Trade Center information
The World Trade Center in New York City was a complex of several buildings around a central plaza, near the south end of Manhattan in the downtown financial district; three of the original buildings were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
1993 World Trade Center bombing: On February 26, 1993, a minivan bomb planted by terrorists exploded in the underground garage of the north tower, opening a 30m hole through 4 sublevels of concrete.
The World Trade Center is slated to be rebuilt as the 1776 ft (541 m) Freedom Tower and the Memory Foundations complex of buildings.
www.tribute-to-heroes.com /world-trade-center.htm   (3179 words)

  
 CNN.com - World Trade Center: A city in towers - September 12, 2001
Most of the World Trade Center's commercial tenants were involved in banking and finance, insurance, transportation, import and export, customs brokerage and trade association.
The World Trade Center complex comprised seven buildings, including One and Two World Trade Center (the Twin Towers), Four and Five World Trade Center, and a mall with thousands of feet of retail space.
Among the tenants of the Twin Towers were The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which had offices on the 67th and 68th floors.
archives.cnn.com /2001/US/09/11/trade.center/index.html   (294 words)

  
 Brokers aid smaller WTC tenants - real estate brokers assist tenants of World Trade Center, New York, New York in ...
Following the explosion that hocked out all power in One and Two World Trade Center, New York real estate brokers last week found themselves serving the temporary relocation needs of some smaller tenants as most of the larger companies relied on contingency plans and their own networking.
Dean Witter, a tenant in Two World Trade Center that rents slightly under 1 million square feet, moved traders to branch locations and a number of executives to New Jersey.
Galbreath Riverbank's Karla Kudatzky, on-site leasing manager for 90 West Street, located across from the World Financial Center, said she showed space to one tenant who before the crash was considering leaving the World Trade Center.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_n30_v39/ai_13508464   (985 words)

  
 Structurae [en]: Two World Trade Center (1973 )
In an official ceremony, the last column remaining from the World Trade Center rubble is removed and the cleanup work at ground zero is formally completed.
The official death toll of the destruction of the world trade center is set at 2 823 dead.
The World Trade Center towers were built to resist the impact of a Boeing 707.
en.structurae.de /structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0002118   (926 words)

  
 World Trade Center Chicago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
These tenants are members of the World Trade Center Chicago Association and are in some way involved in international trade.
Tenants and WTCC staff are in constant communication.
Special tenant events are held quarterly and annual surveys serve as proof that their needs are met.
www.wtcc.org /site/331/default.aspx   (766 words)

  
 General Information
The mission of the World Trade Center is to add wealth and jobs in Louisiana through international trade, port development, and allied activities.
In addition, over the years countless dignitaries from throughout the world have visited the WTC as honorees or speakers at WTC programs, as well as business men and women visiting Louisiana on trade missions or individually from around the globe.
WTC New Orleans also operates the 33-story World Trade Center at 2 Canal Street on the riverfront, with tenants engaged in the full range of international trade activities.
www.wtcno.org /wtc   (417 words)

  
 RealEstateJournal | Lots of Tension, Few Tenants For 7 World Trade Center
Seven World Trade Center, Manhattan's most modern office tower, will likely be very quiet when it opens in March.
Despite two years of sales pitches for the 52-story steel-and-glass box that overlooks the dusty pit where the Twin Towers stood, no major tenants have taken space in the skyscraper.
In addition to needing to find tenants for 7 World Trade Center and secure the tax-exempt bonds, he plans to begin foundation work on the signature building on the site, the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower in April.
homes.wsj.com /regionalnews/20051215-frangos.html   (1512 words)

  
 Reply to Popular Mechanics re 9/11
This was also the conclusion reached in the author's earlier article on this subject, The World Trade Center Demolition and the So-Called War on Terrorism.
I was a tenant at WTC1 in 1979-81.
The FEMA report on the collapse of WTC 7, together with a critical commentary, may be found at The FEMA Report on World Trade Center 7 Collapse is a Total Joke.
www.serendipity.li /wot/pop_mech/reply_to_popular_mechanics.htm   (16963 words)

  
 The World Trade Center - Tribute
Construction of a world trade facility had been under consideration since the end of WWII.
One World Trade Center was ready for its first tenants in late 1970, though the upper stories were not completed until 1972; Two World Trade Center was finished in 1973.
When complete, the Center met with mixed reviews, but at 1,368 and 1,362 feet and 110 stories each, the twin towers were the world's tallest, and largest, buildings until the Sears Tower surpassed them both in 1974.
www.championstamp.com /worldtrade-2.htm   (216 words)

  
 CNN.com - New WTC tower design made public - Jun 29, 2005
Silverstein, who leased the Trade Center six weeks before it was destroyed, said he embraced the recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which found that the dislodging of fireproofing material when the hijacked planes crashed into the towers contributed greatly to their collapse.
No tenants, other than the governor and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the transportation agency that owns the site land, have expressed interest in moving offices into the tower.
The memorial, Reflecting Absence, featuring two reflecting pools where the towers stood, will occupy 4.5 acres and will be the first project completed on the site.
www.cnn.com /2005/US/06/29/wtc.tower.redesign/index.html   (757 words)

  
 World Trade Center - Minoru Yamasaki - Great Buildings Online
Photo, Manhattan overview with the World Trade Center towers in the distance.
Photo, looking south at night toward the World Trade Center, with the Empire State Building in the foreground.
Photo, from World Trade Center observation deck, looking east to the Brooklyn Bridge and beyond.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/World_Trade_Center.html   (1968 words)

  
 ITworld.com - After 20 years, Dell looks at future
One of the fundamental tenants you'll find here is that we don't sit around saying, "I'm going to tell you what all customers need." That's not what we do.
In America, we have over half of the wealth of the world, but we have only three and a half percent of the world's population.
That means that the things that we do are really valuable to all the other people in the world, and we trade and they buy things: pharmaceuticals, airplanes, computers.
www.itworld.com /Tech/4535/040716dellinterview   (1377 words)

  
 World Trade Center Tenants Disperse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The destroyed properties of the World Trade Center ("WTC") and the damaged surrounding properties represent a total of 34.5 MM sq.
From TenantWise.com's analysis of the largest tenants, 29 tenants representing a total of 16.4 MM sq.
For large building policies, some owners are resorting to two or three levels of mezzanine insurance to reach only to 50% coverage of replacement value.
www.buildingsmag.com /Articles/detail.asp?ArticleID=762   (950 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com
Following are the businesses that had offices in the two 110-story towers of the World Trade Center that collapsed after terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Emergency contact information to obtain the status of company employees is listed where available.
Information for business and commerce purposes is also available for the World Trade Center firms.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/nation/articles/tower1.html   (94 words)

  
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Montreal boasts having one of the largest Gay and Lesbian populations per capita in the world, nearly 15% of the population, and as a result it is home to a large gay village located downtown and known in French as le Village gai.
Montreal is the major center of Quebec and a major center of Canadian culture in general.....
Montreal-Trudeau is one of the only airports in the world that is prepared to handle the new Airbus A380, which is expected to begin service in early 2007.
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 Montreal-Airport-Limousine
To the south fronting the river is the area of Old Montreal, which draws visitors to the boardwalk on the site of the Old Port and to Place Jacques-Cartier, St. Sulpice Seminary (1685), the Château de Ramezay (1705), and the Gothic Church of Notre Dame (c.1820).
The city is the seat of McGill Univ., the Univ. of Montreal, the Univ. of Quebec at Montreal, and Concordia Univ. The National Hockey League's hallowed Canadiens, the National League's Expos, and the Canadian Football League's Alouettes play in the city.
The last round of construction improved Montreal-Trudeau so that it is one of the few airports in the world that is prepared to handle the new Airbus A380.
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 World Trade Center Tenants - Sept. 11 Anniversary
World Trade Center Tenants - Sept. 11 Anniversary
The following is a list of tenants of One and Two World Trade Center and their suite numbers, as of Feb. 2, 2001.
Click here for the privacy policy, terms of use.
www.nbcsandiego.com /091101/957035/detail.html   (148 words)

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