Word: meads
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...Harvard, E. Scott Mead ’77 was an athlete, artist and a self-proclaimed challenge seeker whose college chums continue to laud his talents...
Classmate Kenneth Ehrlich ’77 says that post-Harvard, Mead could have “pretty much accomplished anything,” and in 2000, when Mead successfully negotiated the largest corporate takeover in history as a partner at Goldman Sachs, the business world agreed...
...More bad news reached the pilots from Washington, where last week Kenneth Mead, the Department of Transportation's Inspector General, delivered a scathing report to Congress on the Transportation Security Administration - the new agency tasked with protecting commercial aviation. Mead said the TSA would not acquire enough explosive detection machines to screen every bag by Dec. 31, as Congress has mandated. (A TSA spokesman says the agency intends to meet the deadline.) Mead predicted that because of its free-spending ways, the TSA would likely run out of money by next month...
...budget would plan to rent 2,700 sq.-ft. offices (at an average of $85 per sq. ft.) for each of its 81 top airport security directors. The TSA says it expects Congress to approve a $4.4 billion supplemental budget request, and that it hasn't decided on offices. Mead's testimony only increased the pilots? sense of vulnerability. "Three thousand people died on Sept. 11 because eight pilots were killed," says Luckey. "Little has been done since then to provide effective protection...
...land of origin of these brilliant songs. With the fiddles, “Whistles high and low,” and bodhran in “Scolding Wife,” the listener can easily picture himself deep within a Newfoundland bar, hoisting a large mug of frothy mead while belting out the rousing chorus...