When companies plan wildly ambitious, over-the-top headquarters, it is sometimes a sign of imperial hubris.
In a further brutal show of strength at the end of December, its guerrillas also razed the mountain-top headquarters of their paramilitary arch-rival, Carlos Castaño, in north-western Colombia, massacring some 30 civilians in the process.
They are Sydney Lippman and Isabella Nuzzo, co-owners of Syd and Izzy's Lemonade Stand, a budding Fortune 500 corporation headquartered in one of the nation's top corporate headquarters, my hometown of Stamford, Conn.
The top secret headquarters of the Guard was underneath the ninth tee at the Burning Bush Country Club.
MI5's top secret headquarters just opposite Vauxhall Bridge.
Top corporate headquarters moved out in the 1980s and in 2007 the city lost its status as a major transportation hub.
The General Staff building, one of the top military headquarters in the country, has been operating with reduced staffing since it was attacked by rebel bombs in September 2012.
Top corporate headquarters such as Gulf Oil (1985), Koppers (1987), Westinghouse (1996) and Rockwell International (1989) were bought out by larger firms, with the loss of high paying, white collar headquarters and research personnel (the "brain drain") as well as massive charitable contributions by the "home based" companies to local cultural and educational institutions.
Mr. Gates's critique of top-heavy headquarters overseas was underscored not only by the date on which it was given but also by the location of the speech: the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum here.
And when he takes us to a dive frequented by Titan, a wayward hero, the author tells us: "It's not a front for a top-secret headquarters that is accessed by an elevator that appears when you pull on the center beer tap.... It's just a beat-up hole-in-the-wall bar".
