1.   The tower began with five beels.

2.   High-rise office towers are beginning to dwarf the remaining French Colonial gems and the narrow, winding alleys that have housed families for generations.

3.   Just as he reached the revolving door leading out of the trade-center complex, he said, the south tower began to collapse.

4.   Problem was, the tower began to go skyward.

5.   When trucks began exploding, speaker towers began to topple and concession stands went up in flames, the general feeling was one of excitement, not fear.

6.   The tower began leaning shortly after its completion.

7.   But the furnace towers eventually began to show their great age and became too expensive to maintain in terms of manpower.