1.   Even in the heart of this capital city of palm trees and red hibiscus, gardens and gleaming office towers, the sense of neglect is palpable.

2.   Instead, he found that they operated much like any other company, in gleaming corporate offices.

3.   One show takes place in mood-lighted hallways and gleaming offices, the other in a dumpy, hyperkinetic emergency room.

4.   Some of the gleaming office buildings looked fine, but others were cracked or bent.

5.   Six janitors who clean the gleaming office towers of this small city began a hunger strike four days ago as part of an ambitious experiment by the labor movement.

6.   The big names of the computer industry are much in evidence on a cab ride through the city, among the dirt-poor side streets and gleaming new office towers.

7.   Where once Enron employees bounced into the gleaming office tower, they now march quietly and somberly to do the daily work of resuscitating a dying brand.

8.   With its wide roads, gleaming office buildings and fancy boutiques, Saudi Arabia has long paired modern trappings with the strict tenets of the dominant Wahabi Muslim sect.

9.   Owners and developers hoped to cash in on the boom by selling property or tearing buildings down to make way for gleaming office towers.

10.   But modern Istanbul is also a vital city of gleaming office towers and trendy discotheques.