Since Blue Star owns no aircraft, it needn't worry about costs like pilot training and maintenance.
For the masses, Giordano has opened three Blue Star stores in the suburbs of Hong Kong.
He considered himself both a Pole and a Jew, despite his white armband with its blue star.
Regardless, in 2001, as their NASD sanctions kicked in, they were on to their next move: Blue Star.
Blue Star Families recognized this gap in easily accessible information for military families.
Within a year the two men say they plan to take Blue Star public, make an acquisition, or both.
As a Blue Star mom, Jill knows these issues as well as anyone.
Blue Star Steel saves money buying scrap steel, and the environment is spared additional greenhouse gas emissions from a foundry.
Charter jet firms, like TAG Aviation, complain that Blue Star pressures them to fly their planes at rates that barely cover overhead.
Blue Star is the exclusive broker for Donald Trump's online travel agency.
Blue Star is a broker between people who want to charter a plane or helicopter and owners or managers of some 4, 000 aircraft.
So I want to particularly thank all of the Blue Star moms who are here today, and I'd like to have you all stand.
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To be sure, Blue Star Families has exceeded its own expectations.
I'd also like to thank to Dr. Jill Biden -- a Blue Star Mom, by the way -- and a dear friend of mine as well.
Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, is a mother and grandmother, a lifelong educator, a proud Blue Star mom, and an active member of her community.
The philosophy behind Blue Star Families starts with the constitution.
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Incidentally, they named Blue Star after the 1987 movie Wall Street, in which Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko buys Bluestar Airlines using inside information--and his informant is sent to jail.
Blue Star Families has successfully launched a series of programs that empower and connect military families with one another and provide ways for civilians to get involved in meaningful ways.
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Profitability isn't the only thing that distinguishes Blue Star.
It sells them directly to a local steel fabricator, Blue Star Steel, which uses them to stamp out small brackets for heating and air conditioning equipment for other industries, skipping the foundry altogether.
In 2009, I helped to create Blue Star Families with a group of dedicated military spouses to support, empower and connect military families to each other, to their communities and to decision makers.
To hear Todd Rome and Richard (Ricky) Sitomer tell it, the two cofounders of Blue Star Jets have created a new business model for private aviation: "We're the superbroker of the industry, " says Sitomer, 37.
The job of contextualizing and bridging the schism between military and civilian understanding has been the dedicated work of Blue Star Families and its highly accomplished and passionate CEO, Kathy Roth-Douquet, since 2008.
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And I am especially grateful to my phenomenal partner in this effort, a Blue Star mom herself and a tireless champion of Guard and Reserve families, and an inspiration to me throughout this entire process, my dear friend, Dr. Jill Biden.
Pamela Stokes Eggleston is a Founding Member and Development Director for Blue Star Families, a national nonprofit that connects military families, and those in government, national organizations, and local civilian communities to foster a better understanding of the unique challenges of military life.
From day one, this has been a mission of mine, along with the Vice President's wife, Dr. Jill Biden -- my dear, dear friend and a Blue Star mom herself -- who has been a tireless advocate in support of our extraordinary National Guard and Reserve members and their families.
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Energy Star So, you're patting yourself on the back because that new refrigerator or TV you just bought comes with a bright blue Energy Star sticker.
Table settings included Colonial-style silverware and, for a contrasting sense of playfulness, loose bouquets of American flowers, reminiscent of the prairie white garden roses, blue hydrangea, star-shaped tweedia, thistle.
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Wilson is also a member of the all-star ensemble Blue Note 7, which is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the label in 2009.
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