Word: ownerships
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...regional business travel, getting to the airport can take longer than the flight. So fractional-ownership schemes that made private jets more affordable are now available for helicopters. It takes only 120 minutes to chopper from New York City to Capitol Hill--without a rush-hour traffic battle at each end. Dallas to Fort Worth? Fourteen minutes. A commuter chopper is as comfortable as a jet, says HeliFlite Shares CEO Mark Ozenick, left. It's also as pricey. A 60-hour share runs about...
After working at the Grolier for many years, Solano assumed ownership on January 30, 1974, after Cairnie’s death. It took only two days as owner for her starry-eyed idealism for the endeavor to fade. Cairnie had lost the back room of the store to the Harvard Book Store, and torrent of visitors from Harvard had slowed to a trickle. The boards on the floor creaked “like a ship in full sail.” While it was immensely comforting to those who already knew and loved the place, it was an inescapable distraction...
...nearly to capacity with volumes of poetry. Two hanging baskets of plants adorn the front of the store, and the highest reaches of the walls display black and white photographs of poets, donated by the poets themselves. The floor no longer creaks; during the mid-80s, Harvard University took ownership of the property. A Grolier customer who was involved in the selling of the property wrote a provision into the contract stipulating that Harvard had to redo the floor and paint the ceiling before it could purchase the property...
...simple swipe of their Zipcar-card. Robin Chase, CEO of Zipcar and a native of the Boston area, saw the city and its popular public transportation system as the perfect target for this type of enterprise. She points to the “hassle factor” of car ownership saying that, “owning a car here is more of a pain than its worth...
This question used to be Tommy’s vs. Pinnochio’s, but since the new ownership at Tommy’s started sucking we’ve had to change it to this: Pinnochio’s or Pinnochio?...