Word: decison
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Turner accepted the resignation of CNN'S first president, Reese Schonfeld, who has spent an estimable career developing alternatives to network news. One cause of the dispute was Schonfeld's decison to fire Interviewer Sandi Freeman, CNN'S most popular performer, who, Schonfeld said, was not a journalist. As soon as Schonfeld resigned, Turner started negotiating to get Freeman back. Turner kept Schonfeld on as a consultant and corporate board member, however, and as replacements he named a committee of key Schonfeld aides: Ed Turner (no relation), Burt Reinhardt and Robert Wussler, a tough-minded former president...
However, Peter A. Vellucci, a member of the East Cambridge Citizens Planning Team, which is leading opposition to the jail, said that Alberti's original decison was based on the fact that the absence of a sprinkler system makes the jail a fire hazard. Vellucci says he remains optimistic that Alberti will oppose occupation of the jail as long as there are no plans to install a sprinkler system...
Jaffe also wasn't surprised by the committee's decison. "In physics," he suggests, "there's clearly a small group which everybody in the field recognizes as head and shoulders above the rest. Maybe 20 persons. They are all deserving of the prize, but it can only go to say 20 per cent of them. Here's where publicity, both within the science community and outside of it fit in. Within the group the selection is fairly arbitrary...
Erlich said that in protesting the institute's invitation, he cited a passage from Rhode's book on Polish history published in 1941, which praised Adolph Hitler for his 1939 decison to invade Poland...
...That since there was evidence of friction between Hartman and higher-ups in the planning department, the GSD and the University and since he had received "no satisfactory explanation of the decison [not to rehire] in terms of valid academic criteria," then it was a "fair inference that personal and political considerations violative of his rights had played a major role in the decision...