Word: alarms
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Outside the Science Center after the fire alarm goes off (25 min): 33/50...
...unusual challenges. "I wasn't naive about what I was entering," Breen says. "My first day, almost 20% of our investor base showed up--in the third hour--in my office." They wanted to know how Breen was going to restore credibility to a health-care, electronics and security-alarm company that once aspired to be the next GE before Kozlowski's fall brought it to disrepute. The new CEO moved quickly. In his first six months he replaced Tyco's board of directors wholesale, fired the entire top corporate team and hired 80 executives to fill their spots...
...plans Meelia submitted and for some reason lumped health care with plastics and adhesives into one division. At other units, the troubles went deeper. An internal audit of the company's accounting problems found some of the worst at Tyco Fire & Security, best known for its ADT home security alarm subsidiary. By manipulating the way payments for its accounts with local dealers of security systems were recorded, Tyco executives allegedly overpaid for accounts, shifted the money around and then counted it as profit. Breen fired 15 top executives at the unit, which was also implicated in some of Kozlowski...
...years. Over the weekend the pipes froze and burst in the new high-rise Time Warner Center building where his restaurant, Per Se, is located, so there is no water. The floor in his kitchen is being re-laid for the third time to get it level. The fire alarm keeps going off with flashing lights and a deafening siren, and platoons of electricians, plasterers and carpenters are working frantically to get the place ready for the building's opening in three weeks...
According to David C. Marshall ’07, the group then traveled to an “undisclosed location” in Charleston for a strategy meeting with the entire local Dean staff. A fire alarm went off as the meeting was about to begin, leading some staff members to suspect foul play on the part of rival campaigns, Marshall said...