Word: shared
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Usually voters wait for a candidate to get elected before they start demanding favors. Then again, most would-be officeholders don't share a home with the President of the U.S. And with this President a lame duck, interest groups and activists have lately decided that Hillary, the aspiring Senator from New York, is the Clinton to go to in the White House...
Katie Buffett has joined a growing, albeit still elite, list of Americans who have opted out of the joys of flying with commercial airlines. She recently bought a share in a private plane because her favorite nephew told her it would be a good idea. The nephew, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, thinks many more people will pay to avoid cooling their heels at gates and cramping their backsides into uncomfortable seats in the air. Buffett spent $725 million last year to acquire Executive Jet Aviation, operator of NetJets, which created a business in fractional ownership of aircraft. With revenues projected...
...anytime? Priced to make a buck, of course. Customers do not buy a particular plane so much as the right to fly on a jet of the class they have purchased. NetJets owners can purchase a fraction of a plane up to the whole thing and get a proportional share of its air time. A one-eighth share of, say, a Cessna Citation V Ultra goes for $835,000, and each hour of occupied flight will cost you $1,242. Management and other fees are around $7,600 a month...
...Colin Quinn, a few others. "It's sort of the same reason cops and prostitutes like to hang out together," explains Seinfeld. "No one else understands them." It's a group that meets for nonprofessional reasons, but the camaraderie often sparks humorous ideas. Nevertheless, Rock declines to share jokes in progress even with his friends or his wife, doing his writing in private. The onetime high school misfit still has trouble fitting in. "I really can't trust anybody," Rock says. "Even the people who love you will have momentary lapses in love or they'll take advantage...
...veneer of political neutrality. Preliminary findings of a new study indicate that neutrality may be fading. According to the study, conducted by political science professors from Duke and the University of North Carolina, military leaders are voicing more conservative views than ever before, and they are not views shared by most of their civilian counterparts. The majority of today?s military identifies itself as Republican, believes that prayer should be permitted in public schools and thinks military leaders share the values of the American people. This sparks some concern: Will a conservative, vocal military emerge as a new political force...