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Airgas’s McCausland Spurns $506 Million Payday in Bid
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Trapped on a windless patch of sea, Airgas Inc. Chief Executive Officer Peter McCausland wouldn’t give up.
Skippering the Nantucket Yacht Club’s entry in the world championships for International One-Design boats off the coast of Fishers Island, New York, he kept pushing his four crewmates. He was hoping, unsuccessfully, the wind might turn in his boat’s favor, said Burges Green, a retired schoolteacher who was aboard that summer day in 2004.