Think of what smaller or no bonuses will mean to the dog-walkers, toenail painters, personal trainers and high-end travel and real estate agents of Manhattan.
The price jump is because natural saltwater pearls were common in the 1920s when highend jewelers would travel to the Bahrain to pull them out of the Gulf.
It seems a little paradoxical that Cisco, which promotes highend teleconferencing to reduce business travel, should be a leader with Active in something as arcane as physical conferences.
Many others are installing high-end video rooms in key locations so that managers and executives who would ordinarily travel to meet with each other can hold virtual meetings with greater frequency and less downtime.
The ban meant buses had to stop at the King's Head pub and could no longer travel another 330 yards (300m) to the Market Place at the other end of the High Street.