In July, Chilean police raided the organisation's Santiago headquarters, copying computer hard drives and searching for accounting records.
But inside the exchange's marble headquarters, the computer screens that display stock prices and the digital clocks and message boards glowed brightly.
At the company's Florida headquarters, a computer system tracks known ordinances by ZIP codes so a customer can be informed of local regulations.
In the lobby of Gehl's headquarters, a computer monitor flickers with the company's latest stock price of around $15 a share, up about $5 since Mr. Simmons made his buyout offer of $18 a share.
The Big Board's headquarters and computer systems survived the destruction of the World Trade Center unscathed, but the attacks shut the exchange by crippling the financial district's communications network.
The random allocation sequence will be generated centrally at the World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters using computer generated random numbers.
Dubai has built its current wealth mainly on its role as an international focus for commercial and industrial development, investment and tourism, and has become a regional centre for international corporate headquarters and computer and media companies.
In fact, when the Air Force began looking for a place to base its new headquarters for computer-network warfare, officially called the 24th Air Force, San Antonio was not even on the list.
The Colosseum, the White House, the intergalactic spaceship, the skyline, the ghetto, the corporate headquarters: whether computer- or carpenter-generated, these settings are features in a symbolic landscape in which a fragmented society can participate in the myth of a common culture.
In 1995, police and FBI agents raided Avant!'s Fremont, Calif., headquarters, seizing computers, hard drives and files.
