With the traders using what is known as the open outcry method of trading, in which buyers and sellers gather in the pits to bargain -- that is, to shout and scream -- over prices, the poor acoustics in the Queens building make lip-reading and hand signals, already an essential part of the job, even more crucial.
Accusations would fly, sweat building on his lip as he gesticulated wildly, before calming himself with a Diet Coke.
(Shalgham is a childhood friend of Qaddafi's and a published poet. Sample stanza: "A tenderness roaming around a sip / In a lip / Building a home for love").
There is no doubt that Mr. Foster and his associates have thought about these environmental issues, but rather than open them up for discussion — in the manner, say, of Gary Hustwit's recent documentary "Urbanized" — "How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?" pays lip service to their vital importance.
—FERNANDA SANTOS THE KENT SCHOOL FOUNDED 1906 TUITION, ROOM AND BOARD $45,300 ENROLLMENT 565 Kent, a boarding school Ms. Black's children attended and where she sits on the board of trustees, has the appearance of a feudal village, a cluster of Georgian stone buildings set on the lip of the Housatonic River in Kent, Conn.
At that price, I should be fellating my building manager until my lips are chapped.
FERRELL is LEANING over the lip of the building.
For thirty seconds, Robert climbed, until his outstretched fingertips tagged the top lip of the building.
A narrow catwalk extends about 30 feet from the lip of the building to the cockpit of his climbing tower crane, a Favco 1500 with a 500-horsepower diesel engine and a 135-foot boom.
But once the Taliban and al-Qaeda were on the run, the administration paid mere lip service to building a stable Afghanistan.It fobbed off peacekeeping on to NATO and created an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) with a remit that at first did not go beyond Kabul, the capital.
