Lawrence E. Leibowitz, NYSE Euronext's chief operating officer, wandered about the floor, checking on operations.
Graphics included the show's checkerboard floor, check suiting fabric and monochrome Liberty-style prints.
Witnesses said that after the explosion, the firefighters went through, floor by floor, checking for signs of structural damage and looking for casualties.
On one side is a kitchen where a mother dries silverware, a father hunches over a newspaper and a pigtailed daughter lies on the floor checking her homework.
Mr. Miller, a lean man who favors Hawaiian shirts and Aasics sneakers, took to his house, pacing the floor, checking the Doppler radar, scratching his head.
Each morning, he prowls the floor, checking the stock, schmoozing with buyers and watching, always watching, how the fish are handled.
Steve intercepts me as I arrive on the 11th floor, checks the order slip and sends me back down for a spoon for the ice bucket and for rolls and butter, which should accompany the order, he says.
On another night, Ikaike Kahoano, 24, a singer in the boy band LMNT (made up of some losing contestants from ABC's "Making the Band") was standing at the dance floor checking out girls.
The winner, chosen from 1,500 entries and to be broadcast next week, criticizes Mr. Bush on the federal deficit and argues that future generations will pay for it by showing children washing dishes, mopping a floor, checking groceries and slinging trash bags.
Unlike the other celebrities at the event, who arrived flanked by big bruising bodyguards and an army of assistants, will.i.am toured the CES show floor, checking out all of the innovation for himself.
