If you'd leafed through the FT this weekend, though, you'd have read about how the Virgin consortium will raid the business of its own cash to pay for the purchase – and then, as the chief investor, American financier Wilbur Ross, puts it: "We would hope to sell out a few years down the road". In other words, the business plan is to buy it cheap, strip it of assets – then flog it dear.
If you'd leafed through the FT this weekend, though, you'd have read about how the Virgin consortium will raid the business of its own cash to pay for the purchase – and then, as the chief investor, American financier Wilbur Ross, puts it: "We would hope to sell out a few years down the road".
If you've leafed through the pages of Vogue in the last six months, chances are you've heard of Zebra Katz.
You will never feel quite the same way again about sitting down once you have leafed through "Chairs," arranged by designers from Alvar Aalto to Frank Lloyd Wright.
Even if your imagination runs wild with possibilities, you'd not come near the reality of what lies within (unless you've already leafed through the hardcore "ecosexual" magazines outside).
You've definitely leafed through this photo album before: the one with the pictures of the handsome, hopeful suburban family that fragments before your eyes.
If like me, you are a longtime, totally committed Barbra Streisand fan and just had to have her coffee table book "My Passion for Design," you probably only leafed through this curious celebration of her meticulously planned Malibu estate.
Larry Mullen Jr.: You know, I leafed through the Stanislavski book on Method acting many, many years ago, but it meant absolutely nothing to me, because I'd had no experience acting.
And don't be surprised if you find that once you start leafing through the pages of this dictionary, it suddenly grabs hold and it is unclear whether it is the book that won't let go of you, or you who won't let go of the book.
If you've searched "Friends in Chicago" on Facebook (you might be surprised) and leafed through your address book to no avail, you can always try hospitality exchange sites like Couchsurfing and BeWelcome.org.org
