Word: hiltonization
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...last May. Richard Parsons, one of Levin's two deputies and the man he wanted to succeed him as CEO of AOL Time Warner, was being avidly recruited to be CEO of food-and-tobacco giant Philip Morris. In a car ride back from a corporate retreat at the Hilton Rye Town, in the New York City suburbs, Levin urged his protege to stay...
...Since he had hired temp pilots from Corporate Aviators in Newtown, Conn., he called there. Now he lives--temporarily--in Charlotte, N.C., beefing up a large corporate flight department and earning 1 1/2 times his old salary. When time permits, he and his wife Karen go boating: Hilton Head in winter, Chesapeake Bay in summer. Says Casto: "I'm kind of in the catbird seat." There might be room...
...unanswered questions in London's Independent. And in line with the growing British calls for an inquiry into the events, that paper's fiercely anti-war columnist Robert Fisk accuses the U.S. and Britain of complicity in a war crime. His argument is echoed in The Guardian where Isabel Hilton argues that the involvement of American and British personnel alongside General Dostum's men necessitates an investigation. "Were they fighting by Dostum's rules or by their own?" she writes. "Or do we no longer bother with the distinction...
...billion annual income of the U.S. travel industry is bigger than the entire federal defense budget. And it has been brought to its knees, reduced to begging for government handouts and wooing potential tourists with outrageously attractive deals. At the grand Fontainebleau Hilton in Miami Beach you can get a $450 room for only $200 a night. Universal Studios will let regional customers into its Orlando theme park for two days and throw in a room for two nights--for $99. Budget is offering daily rentals for as little...
...this year's Academy Awards, the Grammy and the Cannes film festival. Twentieth Century Fox crowned them "honorary Bond girls" to promote its latest 007 movie in Japan, sparking rumors of roles in a future Bond film. Vanity Fair listed them in its "In & Out" column (Kano sisters "in," Hilton heiresses "out"). The international offers?this month they are filming a TV special in South Korea?have swelled to the point that they have enlisted the aid of International Management Group, which represents, among other top talents, the Williams sisters...