Word: meacham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steve F. Meacham, an employee at the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, said during the hearing that many immigrants and illegal aliens are taken advantage of by their landlords because they either do not know their rights or are afraid to assert them...
...want it all to hang out today," Meacham told the committee yesterday...
Gazing out of her window as she rode a jumbo jet from London to Newark last * Wednesday, Passenger Candi Meacham was enjoying the clear blue Atlantic vista when her reverie was rudely shattered. Suddenly what had at first seemed to be just a speck in the sky became another airliner that was streaking right toward her Continental Airlines 747. "I knew it was going to hit us," the Jacksonville homemaker recalled with a shudder...
...oncoming L-1011, which had strayed 60 miles off its London-to- Cincinnati flight path, was traveling at the same altitude as the 747 and closing quickly. At the last moment it appeared to dive and passed only about 100 ft. beneath the 747. Meacham and other passengers could easily make out the DELTA lettering as the airliner rushed by at more than 500 m.p.h...
...idiots!" But the pilots ultimately decided that they had to notify authorities of the mishap. Meanwhile, a crew member moved discreetly around the Continental cabin, seeking to soothe passengers who had noticed the near disaster. "He told me they were aware of it in the cockpit," said Meacham, "but asked that I keep it their little secret" to avoid upsetting other passengers...