They address each other by first names, a sign not just of unusual intimacy, but of equality - her intelligence and managerial skills more than compensating for his higher social status.
I am in my late sixties and have always resented the one-way informality of being called by first name by a doctor.
She mentioned Ms. Paltrow (by first name) as an example: "Gwyneth was super uncoordinated when she started, and it takes a few months to get down the routines.
Edie Ames, president of Morton's The Steakhouse, casually strolls into the Brooklyn, N.Y., location, easily greeting staff by first name and taking a seat at a booth near the bar.
Mr. Huber did not include any interviews with African-Americans, and all 10 white Philadelphia residents in the article were quoted by first name or by a changed name.
In a news conference about the economy with a small group of handpicked state-media journalists — all of whom he seemed to address by first name — he adopted a gently paternal tone.
Mr. Kerry, who has by now spent a year observing Mr. Edwards, also smiled and leaned into his questioners, referring to them by first name and offering a joke or two.
In accordance with the data protection policy, data were provided in an anonymised format with all names removed and replaced by first name initial and a soundex code derived from the patient's surname.
And then a regular she knew by first name only, Karl, had a stroke in the bathroom and she simultaneously learned two things.
He addressed questioners by their first name, a habit later picked up, though less naturally, by the others.
