"It was pretty awesome," she says, nibbling a granola bar in a tiny ninth-floor office brightened by bags of wrapped Christmas gifts.

Protesters who tried to get to Microsoft's ninth-floor offices in Foster City found the elevators blocked.

He ended up throwing himself through a plate glass window from a ninth-floor office and fell to his death.

He recalled that the typists in his ninth-floor office would stand respectfully when he walked into their room and sit down only after he left.

Miss Sills recently discussed her latest career move in her comfortable ninth-floor office in the center's new Rose Building, overlooking the complex.

She now commands a mini-empire from her ninth-floor offices above the auditorium.

"This is great to hear," he said, sounding upbeat during an interview in his ninth-floor office not far from Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.

The boxes are packed in William Waldman's ninth-floor office.

Sitting in his ninth-floor office, Mr. Galotti, a man who collected enemies and ad pages with equal facility, smiled beneficently as he pronounced himself officially humbled.

He spoke in an interview in a ninth-floor office of the Daily Mirror building, where his father had presided over the empire.