Word: gulfstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...INVITED If you are not the CEO of a huge and successful company, be the best at something significant or, if you can, buy a jet from Gulfstream, one of Forstmann's holdings. Those attending could as easily be somewhere else. They come because they have a good time...
Powell (a board member of the United Negro College Fund, Howard University, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.) is actually Powell Inc., which he runs from his house in McLean, Virginia, and a boxy little office nearby that's decorated with Army memorabilia, a print of Teddy Roosevelt charging San Juan Hill and a collection of gimme coffee mugs. His day job is to give speeches for big fees, but he is spending 30% of his time now on the summit and expects that to grow...
...Disney, Ovitz's expensively renovated offices stand empty. His Gulfstream III jet, which he sold to the company when he went to work there, is now happily occupied by ABC president Bob Iger. Apparently Ovitz has replaced it with a more modest Westwind...
...models are in the showrooms--not cars, but jets for VIPs and CEOs. Business is booming in the $2 billion executive-aircraft industry. The newest chariot, rolled out last week, is Bombardier's Global Express, which will compete with Gulfstream V and Citation X. Fly one to your next downsizing...
...Model] GULFSTREAM V [Made By] Gulfstream Aerospace Co. [Price] $37.8 million [Orders] 63 (available in December) [Maximum Range] 7,475 miles [Top Speed] 593 m.p.h. [Maximum Altitude] 51,000 ft. [Cabin Volume] 1,669 cu. ft. [Total Passengers] 19 [Celebrity Buyer] Edgar Bronfman Jr. [Options] 24-k.-gold fittings; satellite communications; stand-up shower; crew rest area...