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Frank Fahrenkopf, the industry's top lobbyist (who is paid so much he can afford monogrammed shirt cuffs --I saw them), holds forth cheerfully outside the ballroom, celebrating the electoral triumph of freedom over religious moralist tyranny.
Unlike Moussaoui, the typical student at Pan Am Flight Academy holds an FAA Airline Transport Pilot rating or the foreign equivalent, is employed by an airline, and has several thousand flight hours.
(The Republicans lead on military readiness, but this issue holds little weight with voters, the poll finds.)
A bronze bust (1900) of Italy’s most celebrated goldsmith, Benvenuto Cellini, holds a position of honor in the middle of the bridge with a vantage point of lovely views.
The premise of Morgenson's article was drawn from a new study by Steve Galbraith of Sanford C. Bernstein, which shows that the "average" investor now holds shares only eight months, whereas a decade ago he/she held shares for two years.