Word: flanagan
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Once upon a time, when Maurice Flanagan was working at the airport in Nairobi, wet weather meant one thing: it was time to jump into his car and drive quickly up and down the clay runway. If his wheels got stuck, he would wave off any approaching airplane. He has come a long way. Now vice chairman and group president of Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, Flanagan is in charge of the globe's 14th largest and fifth-most-profitable airline. Under his watch, the once tiny, government-owned Emirates Airlines has been transformed, growing more than 20% a year...
DIED. DENNIS FLANAGAN, 85, visionary editor of Scientific American who transformed it from a prestigious but little-read journal into an influential mainstream magazine with a circulation of 600,000 and set a model for making complex scientific ideas understandable to all; of prostate cancer; in New York City...
Opponents of the change—including Sarah A. Flanagan, vice president for governmental relations at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities—argue that any gain from more accurate data would be minimal. “Do [policymakers] really need to know why Johnny Jones transferred from Institution A to Institution B?” asked Flanagan. “We already have a pretty good idea of what’s going on in American higher education. We don’t think it’s worth the trade-off in student privacy...
...according to Flanagan, “most private college presidents say that we don’t have a right to give up our students’ privacy to make our graduation rates look better...
...Flanagan said the National Center’s statisticians—although “they’re great people who do great research”—lack the political clout to block other government agencies who demand access to the database...