In the crowd were also lawyers, accountants, borrowers and brokers of every type, creed and stripe.

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Once the IRS caved, lawyers, accountants, plane brokers and fractional ownership companies like Berkshire Hathaway 's (nyse: BRKa - news - people ) NetJets actively promoted the tax advantages of buying your own company plane--or plane share.

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The megarich, with their more complicated estates, have long had brokers and accountants dancing attendance on them.

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