The peak year of something's popularity. Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993. The most knowledgable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. Ask Larry, he's the alpha geek around here. A plane used to simulate zero-G for astronaut flight training.
Trainees often get motion sickness inside.
The rarified organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. Losing one's train of thought. A TV or radio fund-raiser for a charity, religious organization, or PBS station that employs every known form of guilt, sweet talking, and outright begging to get people to fork over the dough. Older, experienced business people hired by young entrpreneurial firms looking to appear more reputable and established.