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Dunkleberger is a member, but it is a status that even his close co-workers are unaware of. Solovy clams up after mentioning that he holds one of these cards. "It's very valuable. It's black," he says. "It gets you priority on the standby list and gives you upgrades if you need them." But then silence. Next topic please...
United Airlines has a similar level of secrecy surrounding its Global Services program. "We don't discuss the criteria for being invited into this elite club," says one spokesperson. The airline, however, will list some of its perks: being the first to board a plane; having a private check-in room with a back door to the front of security; a private phone number to agents who are at your beck and call. United's top flier, Thomas Stuker, is a huge fan. "Global services is like dying and going to heaven," he says. "They take care of every single...
...forecast might be close enough to right to pay off handsomely. "A lot of unexpected things happen each year, and you can make a lot of money as long as you get some of them right," says Byron Wien, a Blackstone Group vice chairman who puts out an annual list of ten surprises for the following year. "If you cut your losses on what you get wrong and let your winners runs, you can do very well...
LADY GAGA, a pop star and an honoree on Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating People of 2009 list, explaining to Walters why she always covers her face with dark glasses...
...your homework. Ask the Chinese in Nanking and the Jews of Poland and Russia what they thought of the 1930, the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki of the 1940s, the U.S. soldiers in the Hanoi Hilton of the 1960s--not to mention all Americans of the 1860--and the list goes...