Backers had hoped that the law would have stood long enough to be tested in the state's highest court.
Snags declined in density with increasing time since fire and generally followed expected patterns of decay, except that few snags stood long enough to reach a clean-bark state.
If you stood long enough on Andrassy Street, the wide boulevard bisecting the city, and peered through the midday haze of exhaust from old Trabants and Ladas, you could sense the city's past greatness.
On September 11th, each building took the impact of a 767 (which is nearly twenty per cent heavier than a 707) and stood long enough to allow most of the people below the crash sites — the ninety-fourth floor to the ninety-ninth floor in the north tower, and the seventy-eighth floor to the eighty-fourth floor in the south tower — to escape.
Although no one died as a result of the collapses in 5 and 7 World Trade Centers, since both stood long enough to be evacuated, the team's findings are likely to lead to recommended changes in the way public and government buildings are constructed, much the way similar studies did after the Northridge earthquake near Los Angeles in 1994 and the Oklahoma City bombing.
And it is one of the pleasures of living here that one can still come upon a restaurant, housed in a building that has stood long enough to have, itself, become part of the landscape, with 100-year-old fireplaces and views that have not changed much since the place was built.
Mr. Shopenn, 67, an architectural photographer and avid snowboarder, had been in such pain from arthritis that he could not stand long enough to make coffee, let alone work.
In fact, every domestic dwelling that stands long enough will be a crime scene one day.
