"ft" is a correct and usable abbreviation in written English.
It stands for "feet" and is typically used to denote measurements of length. For example, "The building is 10 ft tall."
But what does it all mean as Europe gently frazzles and David Goodhart, ex-editor of Prospect, now director of the Demos thinktank, pens an ambitious FT article (paywall) promoting a new settlement for British politics, what he calls "post-liberalism"?
The top floor of the Willis Tower, at 1,354 ft, is higher than the One World Trade Center's top floor at 1,268 ft. The debate was particularly charged because of the symbolic nature of the metal structure on One World Trade Center.
Covering more than 92,000 sq metres (1m sq ft), it is packed with supercomputers operated by codebreakers and data miners who work behind concrete and limestone walls that are up to 2.5 metres (8ft) thick.
FT education products now serve two thirds of the world's top 50 business schools.
For Clean Bandit's second 2014 collaboration with Jess Glynne, Glynne was upgraded from a Ft to an ampersand.
After almost two decades of planning and six years of building, the transformation of King's Cross station from a shabby crime spot to a gleaming public space has been completed with the opening of a 7,000 sq metre (75,000 sq ft) plaza, revealing the original brick facade for the first time in 150 years.
Ukraine has paid Russian gas giant Gazprom £242m in advance for December, and 1.5bn cu ft of gas will be imported daily.
Sarah Greene of the End Violence Against Women Coalition recently told the Voice, "In a particular Calvin Harris video [Drinking from the Bottle ft Tinie Tempah], there is kind of a sea of black women's bottoms.
Reached by a tunnel that runs under the six-lane Bayfront Expressway from the existing headquarters, 1 Facebook Way (aka MPK20) is a gargantuan sprawling mass, rambling across an area of 430,000 sq ft (40,000 sq m), or around five and a half football pitches, jacked up above a ground-level car park and topped with a park on the roof.
It will by all accounts be one hell of a gaff: a Grade I listed, 13-bedroom, 30,000 sq ft, twin-lift mansion on Regent's Park, complete with spa, heated swimming pool, gymnasium, beauty salon, powder rooms, a children's floor, games rooms, wine cellar, fumoir and staff wing.
However, we will be moving into a 3,000 sq ft space across the road – it is a big moment for the company.
