Today British Airways is taking more of a velvet glove approach, but once again, it has New York surrounded.

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Yet Mr Fleishman packs an iron fist inside his velvet glove.

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Inside Mr Letwin's velvet glove there is plenty of steel.

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Only Mr Morino is actually in the process of giving away a fortune he earned for himself, which makes him less prone to wrapping his iron fist in a velvet glove than the other authors, who are all professional philanthrocrats of different kinds.

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