So it was a little startling when a good friend, a retired military official who now works as an executive in higher education, mentioned that twice a week he does not arrive in his office until 9 a.m.
It is a startling comedown for a guy who made something out of nothing.
That's a startling number for a social network, more akin to the relentlessly hawking enterprise-software crowd.
Pallavi Dean is a startling figure on a building site - eight and a half months pregnant, wearing a shiny, pink, hard hat.
Just over two years after the Japan earthquake and tsunami, researchers made a startling discovery in a 20-foot-long Japanese fishing vessel that washed ashore last month near Long Beach, Washington: five tropical fish, alive and well.
Pete Domenici has disclosed that he fathered a secret child in the 1970s with the 24-year-old daughter of one of his Senate colleagues a startling revelation for a politician with a reputation as an upstanding family man.
Current absenteeism rates show a startling 17 sick days a year, two-and-a-half times greater than the private sector figure.
When his series of 15 five-minute exposures is done, he has a truly startling image: a fragment of a supernova, a star that exploded 25, 000 years ago.
This is startling at a time when the central government's budget deficit is ballooning following repeated and massive dollops of fiscal stimulus.
The director, Anton Corbijn, a Dutch-born still photographer, works in a disciplined, Precisionist style dry, hard-focus color (Martin Ruhe is the cinematographer) and long stretches of silence (the occasional gunshots are as startling as a sudden crack across the kneecap).
For the Makers, casual-wear outfit Guess stepped up a startling 148%, the result of a fine turnaround after a season of fashion misses.
The frisson came from a startling new book by Gunnar Wetterberg, a Swedish historian, proposing a pan-Nordic federation to unite Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden under a single monarch: Denmark's Queen Margrethe.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car had made startling inroads into a highly competitive market previously dominated by entrenched companies like Hertz and Avis by by keeping a tight focus on evangelists people who loved their company and would sing its praises to friends and colleagues.
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That marked a startling 500-fold improvement in capacity from a crude prototype Motorola had last year.
One particularly fetching photograph by Wilding, hand-colored by Beatrice Johnson, provides a startling reminder of why the Queen was once a celebrated beauty.
In a startling break with tradition, Ron Paul took a few quick jabs at his Republican rivals on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Friday.
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This outlook is a startling one today, but I think it gives a healthy jolt.
In the summer of 2001 Crown Prince Abdullah ordered Prince Bandar to deliver a startling message: the Saudi government was prepared for a fundamental reappraisal of its ties with America.
Like the aliens browsing through refuse for weaponry and food, the film trawls for visual tactics of every kind, from news footage to clips from security cameras, and the result is something new: a startling, redoubtable thriller constructed on the cheap from a decaying world.
Emma Roberts (the niece of Julia, to whom, once she has curled her hair for a party scene, she bears a startling resemblance) stars as Nancy, the supersleuth without a vice in the world.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is on record saying Israel should be wiped off the map, had a startling answer to the question of whether he could support a two-state solution, a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
With Emily Watson as a startling and sexy blind woman, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a journalist whom you can chew.
By the end of the seventeenth century, church membership in New England had undergone a startling transformation, with women for the first time finding themselves in a substantial majority.
Exploiting wars between France and Austria to acquire the rich northern part of the country, the Piedmontese king was faced with a startling fait accompli when the revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, initially leading an expedition of only a thousand men, quite unexpectedly conquered the whole of Sicily and southern Italy.
That in itself is a startling and important challenge given the attention dedicated to this devastating disease over the past two and a half decades.
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But Gillison, 44, a professor at Ohio State University, was among the first researchers to make a startling realization: The old cigarettes-and-alcohol form of the disease was being eclipsed by a new form, caused by the same human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer.
It was therefore a little startling to see Mr Netanyahu, speaking to AIPAC a day later and only hours after visiting the White House, pay almost no heed to what his American patron said.
On January 6, 1973, the anthropologist Margaret Mead published a startling little essay in TV Guide.
Public pension outlays rising to over 10 percent of nominal GDP is a startling development.
Soon after placing a testosterone patch on her bare hip, she noticed a startling change.
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