Word: lutnick
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...anguished New Yorkers who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center, Howard Lutnick was perhaps the hardest to watch on TV, especially for anyone who has ever known responsibility for a lot of people. Lutnick, 40, is CEO of the bond-trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which appears to have lost as many as 700 of its 1,000 Trade Center employees, those who were at work last Tuesday between the 101st and 105th floors of the north tower--just 10 floors above where the hijacked jet plowed in and exploded...
...Lutnick would normally have been at his desk on the 105th floor at that hour. But on Tuesday he dropped off his five-year-old son for the first day of kindergarten--"big-boy school," as Lutnick, in tears, described it last week on ABC News. He arrived at the Trade Center to see it in flames...
...north tower's workers began streaming out of stairwells and into the streets, Lutnick asked which floors they had come from. "And someone would say, '55,'" he recalled. The number kept rising, along with his hopes. What Lutnick didn't know was that the inferno below his employees had sealed off all avenues of escape. A group of them were gathered around a speakerphone talking to colleagues in the U.S. and overseas when the jet struck. Chaos erupted, and the line went dead. Other workers, including Lutnick's younger brother Gary, phoned their families to tell them goodbye...
When the building began to collapse, Lutnick sprinted north to escape the avalanche of debris. When he finally emerged from the dust and smoke, he realized what the future would be like for him and his 320 surviving workers in the New York City area, plus 1,150 more worldwide. "We've got to make our company be able to take care of my 700 families," he said...
...plan is to not let those bastards get us down," said Ken Pforr, a vice president in Cantor's municipal-bonds unit. Besides, as Lutnick observed, the survivors now have a lot more people to take care...