Word: chauffeured
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...also reducing overhead by cutting expenses and perks. Marriott, the highly leveraged hotel chain, recently instituted a salary freeze of up to one year for senior managers and three months for administrative and clerical help. Harcourt sold off its fleet of corporate jets and got rid of its chauffeur-driven limousines...
...succeeded four times. Eight months ago, the group killed Deutsche Bank chief executive Alfred Herrhausen, a personal adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, by exploding a bomb along a street as Herrhausen's armored Mercedes-Benz 500SE limousine passed by. Antiterrorist expert Neusel escaped that fate only because his chauffeur was on holiday: Neusel was driving and the blast ripped through the passenger side...
...spitfire of the title, Tracey Ullman is as funny as on her TV series, but misses the pain of a woman who has spent her life being upstaged by a beautiful younger sister. Morgan Freeman in buckskins looks, and acts, far removed from his role as the prim chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy. He finds both the charm and the meanness in his man, speaks beautifully and chortles through the obligatory feminist postlude, when Ullman ends a speech about happy submission by "accidentally" sending him sprawling...
...Paramount for using his idea as the basis for the 1988 blockbuster Coming to America, court documents showed that the studio had treated America star Eddie Murphy very well indeed. Among other things, Murphy enjoyed the services of a valet, a physical trainer and a $2,000-a-week chauffeur...
...front, to struggle for the party's policies." Junior Politburo member Yevgeni Primakov got a bigger sneer when he argued in the Congress of People's Deputies that the rewards of being a party peer were in some ways a burden. During the hot summers, he complained, the chauffeur- driven black cars turned into sweatboxes...