Word: flown
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...Florida Gators on an IBM T43 ThinkPad laptop. A couple of hours later he sheepishly dragged himself to the keynote podium and sarcastically declared: "Today's one of the first days I'm really upset at the Slingbox.'' He hasn't had much time for disappointment. Krikorian had flown to Cannes to announce that Sling Media will soon start selling Slingbox in Europe and Asia; he told Time that his product will hit high-street retailers in Britain and other European and Asian countries in May (even if his company won't yet reveal prices or which chains will carry...
...real-estate career on hold to join the Navy and fight in the Pacific. "In World War II there were suicide pilots flying their aircraft into our ships," the Secretary told guests at an awards dinner last year. "Today a new enemy is seeking global power and has flown our own airliners into our buildings on suicide missions...
...latest makers of luxury goods to target India as the next hot growth market, joining Herm?s, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Piaget, Tiffany, Moschino and others. Last October, Chanel launched its brand by organizing an exhibition and haute couture extravaganza in New Delhi's tony Imperial Hotel with models flown in from Paris. That same month, Swatch Group introduced its Breguet watches (average price: $30,000) to India, which it hails as one of the world's most enticing growth markets. In January, the Indian government gave upscale retailers a further boost by allowing foreign companies to own a controlling...
...night on a forklift. On a recent evening, Vultaggio, in jeans and an untucked T shirt, zipped around a steamy, 30,000-sq.-ft. Tampa, Fla., warehouse on a hi-low, moving pallets to fit 3 million cans, bottles and gallon jugs of Arizona into the space. Vultaggio had flown from his Lake Success, N.Y., headquarters early that morning to reorganize the space, stopping first in Orlando, Fla., to shake hands with Arnold Palmer, whose face graces the can of Arizona's half-iced-tea, half-lemonade drink. But forget about lounging at the 19th hole: Vultaggio worked the warehouse...
...years and apply for citizenship from their native country, said of the protests, "I don't think they're helpful," arguing that they will only inflame the issue. Mississippi Senator Trent Lott said that protests "make me mad," particularly when he saw that many of the flags flown at the protest were not red, white and blue, but flags of Mexico and other Latin American countries. "I don?t like it and the American people don?t like it," he said, adding, "When they act out like that, they lose...