Beginning modestly in mid-year 1999 and continuing at an accelerated pace through May 2002, the company ( under the direction of Ebbers, Scott Sullivan ( CFO ), David Myers ( Comptroller ) and Buford " Buddy " Yates ( Director of General Accounting )) used fraudulent accounting methods to mask its declining earnings by painting a false picture of financial growth and profitability to prop up the price of WorldCom ’ s stock.

Shortly thereafter, the company ’ s audit committee and board of directors were notified of the fraud and acted swiftly: Sullivan was fired, Myers resigned, Arthur Andersen withdrew its audit opinion for 2001, and the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) launched an investigation into these matters on June 26, 2002 ( see accounting scandals ).

) Greg Myers of the California Angels was the last strikeout victim of Nolan Ryan ’ s career, on September 17, 1993.

Fort Myers, built in 1850 as a military fort to fend off Seminole Indians that were massacring the area ’ s few settlers, was named after Col. Abraham C. Myers, who was stationed in Florida for seven years and was the son-in-law of the fort ’ s establisher and commander.

By 1885, when Fort Myers was incorporated, it was the second largest city only to Tampa on Florida ’ s west coast south of Cedar Key, even larger than Clearwater and Sarasota, also growing cities at the time.

Michael McCullers, writer and director of 2008 ’ s hit movie, Baby Mama, former writer with Saturday Night Live and co-writer with Mike Myers on Austin Powers in Goldmember, is an Indian Springs native.

Wells ' Men Like Gods, Myers ' Silverlock, and Heinlein ’ s Number of the Beast.

Christofferson is a litigation attorney for the O ’ Melveny & Myers law firm and was Miss North Dakota USA in 1989.

* O ’ Melveny & Myers, a US law firm with a worldwide practice.

A disgruntled “ Scottish Guard ” with unusual eating habits called Fat Bastard ( again, Mike Myers ) has been hired to extract Austin ’ s mojo from his frozen body at the Ministry of Defence Cryo Chamber.

" The press release also indicated that Sarah Lawrence " plans not to participate in the peer reputational survey or data collection for U. S. News and World Report ’ s rankings " as, according to Myers, " by submitting data and the peer reputation survey we have tacitly been endorsing these rankings all the information we have provided to U. S. News in the past will be available to the public through other channels.

* Elizabeth ( Betsy ) Myers ( MPA ’ 00 ) – COO, Obama for America ' 08

Four firms were created from the American Tobacco Company ’ s assets: American Tobacco Company, R. J. Reynolds, Liggett & Myers, and Lorillard.

He then worked for a year and a half as a private attorney in the Washington, D. C. office of O ’ Melveny & Myers, an L. A .- based firm, as well as in the antitrust division of the Justice Department for a year.

However, statutes can restrict removal if not purely executive ( Humphrey ’ s executor ), but can't restrict removal of purely executive officer ( Myers v. United States, 272 U. S. 52 ( 1926 )).

The concept of biodiversity hotspots was originated by Norman Myers in two articles in “ The Environmentalist ” ( 1988 ), & 1990 revised after thorough analysis by Myers and others in “ Hotspots: Earth ’ s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions ”.

In November 2006 US State Department analyst Kendall Myers dismissed the special relationship as a ‘ myth ’ with ' no sense of reciprocity '.

Co-edited books include Australians Abroad ( with Charles Higham ), The Radical Reader ( with Stephen Knight ), Air Mail from Down Under ( with Rudi Krausmann ), the three volumes of Best Stories Under the Sun ( with David Myers ), Cyril Hopkins ’ Marcus Clarke ( with Laurie Hergenhan and Ken Stewart ) and Heart Matters ( with Peter Corris ).

* Dr. Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather Founder, Chairman and President, was awarded the National Weather Association ’ s Operation Achievement Award in 2004.

Dr. Myers was recognized in 1997 as one of the 528 greatest entrepreneurs in American history in Entrepreneur Magazine ’ s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.

On Dec. 23, 1783, Rabbi Gershom Mendes Seixas, Simon Nathan (" parnas "), Asher Myers, Barnard Gratz, and Haym Solomon, the " Mahamad " of the Congregation Mickvé Israel, Philadelphia, petitioned the Council of Censors that there be removed from the Constitution the declaration requiring each member of the Assembly to affirm his belief in the divine inspiration of the New Testament.

Under cross-examination, Myers admitted that the PIJ had never carried out an attack outside Israel and the " occupied territories.

The vast majority of the established breeding population of the species is in Lee County, Florida, particularly in the Cape Coral and surrounding regions, including the nearby barrier islands ( Sanibel, Captiva, and North Captiva ), Pine Island, Fort Myers, and Punta Rassa.

William Fletcher Barrett and Frederic William Henry Myers however pointed out problems in a physical theory for telepathy and instead advocated psychical theories.

On 2 June 1960, Artime and nine fellow ' recruits ' were transported by CIA agents to Useppa Island off Fort Myers, Florida, for physical and psychological assessments.

The psychical researcher F. W. H. Myers proposed the existence of a “ metetherial world ,” which he wrote to be a world of images lying beyond the physical world.

From August 1998 to February 2000, General Myers was Commander in Chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U. S. Space Command ; Commander of the Air Force Space Command ; and Department of Defense manager of the space transportation system contingency support at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

As commander, General Myers was responsible for defending America through space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations.

This 1930 edition also had songs in it by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin, by E. Y. Harburg and Duke, and by Harry Myers.

It was previously held by Randy Myers, who had 45 saves in 1997.

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

She had already published extensively, having won various awards, and had come especially to meet Hughes and his fellow poet Lucas Myers.

They had two sons, the elder the novelist Leopold Hamilton Myers ( 1881 – 1944 ), and a daughter.

Myers claimed the song had been written specifically for Haley but, for various reasons, Haley was unable to record it himself until April 12, 1954.

" The song's co-writer, James E. Myers, once claimed he had played drums on the piece, although he also claimed to have been advising the sound mixer in the recording booth.

Already he had relinquished his official post as Lecturer in Experimental Psychology in favour of Dr. Charles Samuel Myers, and now held only a lectureship on the physiology of the special senses .< ref name =" ajop50 "> By degrees he became more absorbed in anthropological research.

They also had sharpshooter Steve Kerr, whom they acquired via free agency before the 1993 – 94 season, Myers, and centers Luc Longley ( acquired via trade in 1994 from the Minnesota Timberwolves ) and Bill Wennington.

He was quickly replaced by Harry Myers, who Chaplin had known while under contract at Keystone Studios.

Saturday Night Live personnel, including Lorne Michaels, Mike Myers ( who had, in his own words, " fallen in love " with Radner after playing her son in a BC Hydro commercial on Canadian television and considered her the reason he wanted to be on SNL ) and Phil Hartman, had not known she was so close to death.

Unbeknownst to the robbers, the friend that Mrs. Myers had called immediately contacted the police when their phone call had ended so abruptly.

Over five hundred people attended his funeral, many of the actors and comedians who had worked with him on Saturday Night Live and on film including Phil Hartman ( who would die five months later ), Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser, Joe Mantegna, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Buscemi, Mike Myers, Christopher Walken, John Goodman, Eugene Levy, George Wendt, Norm Macdonald, Holly Wortell, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Tim Meadows, and Tom Arnold.

John Myers, who had developed commercial brands such as Century Radio and Real Radio, was asked in the first quarter of 2011 to conduct a review into the efficiencies of Radios 1, 2, 1Xtra and 6 Music.

As a footnote it is interesting to note that George S. Myers had previously been one of the degree supervisors for Porfirio Manacop, whose ground-breaking Master's work ( in 1941, later published 1953 ) on a Sicyopterus species overturned the prevailing notion that it was catadromous.

At trial, FBI agent Kerry Myers testified that the PIJ had planned an attack inside the U. S., but that all information about the plot was classified and he could not discuss it.

While most of the politicians resigned, Myers had to be expelled and Williams did not resign until the vote on his expulsion was almost due.

The Knack reunited in November 1986, to play a benefit for Michele Myers, who had been the first person to book the band for a show in 1978.

To play Charlie MacKenzie, Fried and co-producer Cary Woods asked Mike Myers because of the success he had with the first Wayne's World film.

On the set, director Thomas Schlamme said that he had his differences with Myers over how the film should be shaped.