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...another thing, Elliot is running an international business, not mixing martinis for the master. He won't say how profitable Quintessentially is. But since he started the company in 2000 with two friends, it has grown to around 1,000 employees, with 45 offices around the world-including jet-set pit stops like Milan, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Quintessentially is also expanding into new territory, with a sommelier service and a luxury real-estate locator. "I spoke with a member the other day who just used us to sell his house," Elliot says...
...driver" in charge". But others, like former chief of staff Merrill McPeak, think that is shortsighted. "Norty is a good guy, though obviously not cut out of the mold as a fighter pilot," says McPeak, himself a one-time lead solo pilot with the Air Force's Thunderbird fighter-jet flying team. "The important thing is to have a feeling about airpower and its capabilities, not to come from any particular piece...
...uses a jet to travel, but I would describe him more as a workhaholic than a jetsetter,” Janowski said. “He doesn’t go from party to party, sipping champagne. He goes from meeting to meeting, from official appointment to official appointment, and is working in between...
...Sydney had power in Hollywood. But he wore it easily. He was not a social high-flyer. He infinitely preferred a different kind of flying - as the pilot of his own jet. It always seemed to me that he approached flight as he did his movies, enjoying the mastery of its techniques and the beauty it put him in touch with. He was, like most good directors, a practical dreamer. Unlike a lot of them, he was neither self-aggrandizing nor self-important and the thought of never working with him again leaves me (and a lot of people...
...when fact and fantasy intertwine. The Mars Phoenix Lander, the latest of NASA's robotic fleet, demonstrated that after touching down in -58 F temperatures (-50 C) near the planet's north pole on May 25 at 7:38 p.m. EST. Television broadcasts relayed jubilant fist-pumps inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's mission control room in California along with initial images of the spacecraft's frigid new home. But a couple of blocks from the lab, two young boys riding bicycles had a more fanciful perspective. "The spaceship landed where Frosty lives,"one of them told his friend...