Despite the tectonic nature of this portfolio and balance sheet utility, derivatives remain largely misunderstood in the family office realm.
In 1996, desperate to break into the Manhattan office realm, he enlisted Michael Fascitelli, a Goldman Sachs partner who had engineered the sale of Rockefeller Center, with a $50 million pay package to be Vornado's president.
In terms of hiring, the company said this past week it will be adding 350 jobs mainly in its newly opened Palo Alto office in the realm of engineering.
Lawyers for Mr. Comey or Congress could argue that conversations about any legal jeopardy that Mr. Trump or his associates faced for events before Mr. Trump took office fall outside that realm.
It is more often an extension of the private realm – an office lobby without walls, a mall atrium without a roof – owned by a private developer and managed solely in their interests.
One realm where office holiday gift giving may be appropriate: a boss who wants to show appreciation to an employee who has toiled excessively all year.
Filmed entirely on hand-held cameras but not originally expected to be publicly released, the video showed host Jason Hall playing through parts of a single level on a PC at 3D Realms' offices.
Elsewhere in the media realm, the New York office of Saatchi & Saatchi, part of the Publicis Groupe, will realign management of the media department as Jack Irving, 53, media director, steps down, the agency said, to pursue charitable and personal interests; he will serve as a consultant through the end of the year.
In one realm, the new office audience is less fussy: noise.
The business card has long since left the realm of the office Rolodex and entered the world of the Web.
Now, the army of laborers -- along with teams of firefighters still diligently looking for human remains -- have moved below ground, sinking floor by floor into the subterranean realm of an office complex that, even in the horrific implosion of the towers, somehow was not smashed flat.
