He stares at them over a steel-and-fabric chair he has kept all these years.

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"Ultimately passengers will pay for these new rules, because the profit margins of carriers are too thin to absorb the cost of major unforeseen events, " said Dr Ashley Steel, KPMG's global chair for transport.

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Wells Mason's chairs, benches, and tables are simultaneously playful and--with their stark joining of organic and man-made materials (such as the Baltic birch, stainless steel, and fiberboard embedded in a telephone pole in the Shelf Life chair, bottom)--aesthetically and intellectually challenging.

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Jackson, for example, serves on the committees of Sealed Air (nyse: SEE - news - people ), U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil (nyse: MRO - news - people ), where she is chair.

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Deputy mayors Patricia Harris and Robert Steel, Council of Fashion Designers of America President Diane von Furstenberg, IMG head Ted Forstmann and Lincoln Center chair Katherine Farley also joined Bloomberg as he spent the next 20 minutes extolling the virtues of New York as a fashion base.

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