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  • The school says the building's owner, real-estate magnate Aby Rosen 's RFR Holdings LLC, wants the students to leave because of fire-code concerns.

    Landlord Balks at New School Occupation Jessica Firger 2011

  • It's only got two lifts, which means you couldn't possibly get fire-code approval to run it as a hotel or club, but there's all kinds of intriguing possibilities (e.g. ball pit) for this much subterranean volume.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Public School 290 in Manhattan has about 650 students, about 250 more than capacity and above the posted fire-code occupancy.

    Cities Grow at Suburbs' Expense During Recession 2009

  • Last year, the Soros-backed European University in St. Petersburg was subjected to sustained harassment after offering a course on civic activism: a local court ordered the school to shut down for alleged fire-code violations and top faculty members were scolded by the local governor for "training revolutionaries," according to one professor who requested anonymity.

    Beware of Big Ideas 2009

  • None of this fire-code nonsense and glow-stick substitute baloney.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Happy 2008

  • Executives at Houlihan were forced to prune 600 people or face a fire-code violation, organizers said.

    Amid Holiday Cheer, or Lack of, 2008

  • She was Jenny Yeager, the New York Finance Director for Obama'08, and she informed us that the hotel had closed the room because it had reached fire-code capacity.

    Glynnis MacNicol: GENERATION NOBAMA: Wildly Overbooked Campaign Event Leaves Barack Pack Out on the Street 2008

  • The towers, though more than 20 years old, are exempt from city fire-code rules, such as emergency lights in stairwells.

    The Hunt Begins 2008

  • None of this fire-code nonsense and glow-stick substitute baloney.

    a good night Happy 2008

  • Federal funds supported many of these homes and could have been withdrawn absent inspection and fire-code compliance.

    The Manager as Negotiator Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain DAVID A. LAX 1986

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