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...start of business-class-only flights across the Atlantic. But not content with these moves to court well-heeled customers, it's played another ace: access to Europe's largest fleet of private jets. Lufthansa's new private-jet service (www.lufthansa-private-jet.com) is operated by NetJets, which pioneered fractional ownership of business aircraft in 1986, and counts among its 5,000 shareholders the likes of Bono and Madonna. The service enables first-class passengers flying into Lufthansa's Frankfurt and Munich hubs to connect onward to more than 1,000 European airports. Flights can be booked with as little...
...ancestor worship." The pols in Blackpool devoted much earnest attention to plotting a new path. Senior figures were asked to suggest a dramatic "Clause Four" moment, recalling the big boost Labour received in 1995 when Tony Blair arm-twisted his party into renouncing its historic commitment to public ownership of the commanding heights of the economy. Among the suggestions: Should the party offer a welcome to asylum seekers instead of shunning them? Should top Tories pledge not to send their children to private schools? A more mainstream notion was to shift the party's focus to the problems...
...enough, some new clubs offer a rotating selection of vintage cars or the latest extravagant ones. "I believe this is a game-changing business model," says Adam Dell, brother of computer magnate Michael and a venture capitalist who in June invested an undisclosed amount in Bag Borrow or Steal. "Ownership is something that consumers are beginning to recognize as a fleeting thing...
Harvard refused to lease it. So Sullivan promoted a bill that would permit the state of Massachusetts actually to assume ownership of the field on the grounds of eminent domain: Harvard, ostensibly, was blocking the completion of a necessary public project...
That same summer in 1970, Patriots ownership finally opened a “suitable” stadium in Foxboro. The team was rechristened under the pan-Bostonian banner of New England. And over thirty years later, the Gillette Stadium of today was born...