The word "elevator" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a device used to lift people and goods to different floors in a tall building. For example, "The elevator made it much easier for us to move from one floor to the other."
As usual, the response will lead to more jokes: The Romney campaign said that a "car elevator" was simply a mechanism for storing cars in tight spaces... Indeed, we all have trouble storing our many cars sometimes.
Pierson stepped down a month after two high-profile security lapses, in which an unknown man with a knife made it into the White House and an armed private guard was allowed onto an elevator with the president.
The charges against Peterson cap a deeply troubled week for the NFL in the wake of the Baltimore Ravens terminating the contract of Ray Rice, and the league suspending him indefinitely, after video emerged of the running back knocking his then-fiancee unconscious in an Atlantic City elevator in February.
To the long list of drawbacks and regrets of modern life, let the following item be added: if only more elevator security videos had high quality audio.
The NFL has been rocked by domestic violence issues ever since a videotape surfaced that showed former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking out his then-fiancee in an Atlantic City elevator.
Akai Gurley, 28, and his girlfriend were entering the landing below because the elevator was too slow.
I restored the original 1900s ceilings and put in an elevator.
North Dakotans revere the private sector, but have a state-owned bank and grain-elevator company.
In return, Mr Nugent will have to shelve his dreams of using lasers to power space elevator-climbing robots or ultra-efficient rockets, and focus instead on turning a profit.
It would be far better to target executives with criminal sanctions, says Karl Hofstetter, group general counsel to Schindler, an elevator-maker that shared in a 1 billion cartel fine.How might Mr Almunia set about tackling these concerns?
Wade Sobkowich of the Western Grain Elevator Association, an industry group, says that orders for 60,000 railcars-worth of grain have not been filled and 53 vessels are waiting for grain in west-coast ports.
