Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three of the board's seven blacks and all four of the whites then voted to dismiss Sizemore. When it became clear that she would not quit, the board voted last week to offer her two one-year consulting contracts totaling $50,000 if she would leave quietly and drop the remaining 14 months of her $41,700-a-year contract. At week's end, Sizemore was considering the offer...
...Detroit already has laid off 2,000 of its employees and may have to dismiss hundreds more to erase a $17.6 million deficit. When the city asked 8,000 workers to forgo paid vacations and sick leave as an economy measure, said a shop steward, "We told them to shove...
...incredible learning in many subjects (such as the dating of Cope de Vega's early works, or Palestrina's technique of counterpoint), a master of classroom teaching, and a former professor at the University of Chicago and Harvard. But mention his name to scholars and they'll dismiss him as a creative writer. He can't win; praised by some, condemned by others, he is overlooked by most...
...critics may dismiss it with the contemptuous catch phrase "Middle of the road." Elton counters by calling his stuff "ultramelodic pop" and goes right on churning it out at a profligate pace. As for Taupin, a Lincolnshire loner whose father was a chicken farmer and whose hobby is collecting American handguns, his way with words exactly matches Elton's prevailing musical mood. "We never want to write songs that tell an audience what to do," says Taupin. "We don't know enough about the world to preach to people. We take ourselves seriously, but the music...
...President appoints and can dismiss the government (the Premier and his ministers) without consulting Parliament. He can dissolve Parliament without consulting the government if he believes it does not reflect the national mood or deems it unstable, but he must call new elections within 30 days...