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  • It's a familiar joke: A man falls off a forty-story building; as he passes the twentieth floor, a friend yells out the window, "How's it going?" and the faller screams, "So far, so good!"

    Bob Burnett: Polarization Politics: So Far, So Good Bob Burnett 2010

  • It's a familiar joke: A man falls off a forty-story building; as he passes the twentieth floor, a friend yells out the window, "How's it going?" and the faller screams, "So far, so good!"

    Bob Burnett: Polarization Politics: So Far, So Good Bob Burnett 2010

  • So thirteen years later the same architectural firm created the forty-story Rainier Tower.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • It's a familiar joke: A man falls off a forty-story building; as he passes the twentieth floor, a friend yells out the window, "How's it going?" and the faller screams, "So far, so good!"

    Bob Burnett: Polarization Politics: So Far, So Good Bob Burnett 2010

  • So thirteen years later the same architectural firm created the forty-story Rainier Tower.

    Seattle Scrapes the Sky 2009

  • It's a familiar joke: A man falls off a forty-story building; as he passes the twentieth floor, a friend yells out the window, "How's it going?" and the faller screams, "So far, so good!"

    Bob Burnett: Polarization Politics: So Far, So Good Bob Burnett 2010

  • Douglas hung up and looked around his desk: a company calendar hung on the wall, November featuring a shiny photo of the forty-story, blue-glass Obervell Tower.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • What about that forty-story office tower your company just built?

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • Douglas contracted with a local architect and they wrote up the proposal for an $80 million forty-story office tower with ground-floor retail space.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • Douglas contracted with a local architect and they wrote up the proposal for an $80 million forty-story office tower with ground-floor retail space.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

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