The alliance as a whole is highly unlikely to follow the U.S. lead in staging military strikes on Islamic State, NATO diplomats say, although individual allies such as France and Britain may do so.
The stairway itself, flanked by furniture and tableware stores, coffee shops, the Seattle Parrot Market and a "cigar pavilion," leads in stages down to Elliott Bay.
But on Wednesday, when the race returns to more familiar terrain in Italy, Wiggins and Sky could wrest back the lead in the stage's team time-trial.
The following year he was given the lead in a stage version of Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock, in which he played the vicious psychopath, Pinkie Brown.
One afternoon, he turned up to take the lead in a staged reading of a play by an understudy, Joe Forbrich.
Additionally, studies have shown that in the typical individual physical exhaustion does not lead to increases in stage 4 sleep as might be expected if it were serving a restorative function.
He held the lead in the next stage, finishing second in the final stage's time trial to win the race.
In 1984 he stepped into the role of Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly" on the London stage, becoming the first man in modern times to play the female lead in a major stage production.
Richards-Ross, of the United States, took the lead in the closing stage of the race to win in 49.89 seconds.
The inspiration for Johnny "Rooster" Byron, the heavy drinking lead in the transatlantic stage hit Jerusalem, died last week outside his local pub.
