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...part, Perot became publicly critical of a management philosophy that, he believed, put too much of the burden of cost cutting on blue-collar workers while preserving such executive perquisites as private dining rooms and chauffeur-driven limousines. Chairman Smith fired back with some broadsides of his own. Perot's office, he complained to the Detroit Free Press, "makes mine look like a shanty-town. He has a Gilbert Stuart painting hanging on the wall." Said Smith: "[Perot] is a different type of guy than we are in GM. He is very independent. He is the type of guy that...
...Avenida de Marginal, was serving up sax and prawns long before an AK-47 made it onto the Mozambican flag - but to get there you had to cling to the back of a pickup truck with another 40 wide-eyed souls. Today, you can travel in style, in a chauffeur-driven, mint-green-and-chrome '50s-style car. The Havana Transport Company is typical of the city's fast-growing entrepreneurialism - it's owned by a South African who has emigrated to Mozambique. For $50 an hour, Jaime Sumbane with his Panama hat and Dona Flor cigar will take...
...premier private sailing yacht in America, “a 72-foot yawl, which was the finest boat that money could buy.”Swett and Cunningham, both interested in sailing, accepted.Swett says that he remembered his surprise when he first met Brown.“The chauffeur-driven Chrysler drove up to Thayer South and out came Brown, just bouncing and smiling, full of enthusiasm,” recalls Swett. “He also brought an icebox, a rug, pictures to put on the walls and eventually a sofa.”“His mother...
Gela and Pam show up at my hotel in a chauffeur-driven black Ford Excursion. They have matching Juicy sweat-suit dresses, matching Hermes handbags, matching Treo phones, nearly identical Manolo Blahnik shoes that make matching clicks as they walk, identical square engagement rings the size of Hungry Man dinners and the same Cosabella underwear, for which I have to take their word because I keep getting distracted by something else when they get in and out of the Excursion in their tiny outfits. Gela, the brunet, is completely in orange, and Pam, the blond, in white...
...HONG KONG Peninsula Designed to CIA and MI5 security specifications?which require it to be sandwiched between two floors of guest rooms?this suite is truly fit for a President. The perks include a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce, private elevator to the helicopter pad and a security post outside the room. A snip at $5,500 a night...