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An October 2024 launch party with Will Smith and Alicia Keys proved premature, as rushed work left hotels riddled with construction problems and unable to open without hundreds of millions of dollars of fixes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
The inside joke among the corporate team he works with is that they operate “in the basement,” where they are expected to grind out work, while the litigators have the more glamorous assignments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
By the halfway stage, however, the contest had not quite lived up to the hype, with Dubois edging the rounds through steady work to the body.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Phillips, who has a history of high-profile emergency management work, first mentioned the incident in online discussions and later expanded on it in interviews.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
She was here after work at her regular job to make dinner, but now she’s out at her other job.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
