Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anglo American Corp., the nation's largest mining company, then proceeded to fire some 38,000 strikers, bringing the total of dismissed employees to 45,000. The firm also pledged to sack an additional 16,000 this week if they did not return to work. Meanwhile, a black coal miner who had refused to go on strike was found stabbed and burned to death. The next day security police shot and killed two strikers in a clash near Johannesburg...
...sort of sappy, happy dream that belongs in a feverish place like Miami: you are tooling along I-95 when an armored truck whizzes by. The back door swings open. Out falls a sack. Along comes another truck. Whack, it hits the sack. A blizzard of money explodes into the air. Cars screech to a halt, and people leap out, running every which way after the money...
...wants you to play by the rules." It worked out fine; in a week the actor has gone from Who's he? to heartthrob. That is a status Connery has easily worn for a quarter-century, and he was happy to fall into Malone's sack-of-potatoes haberdashery and the film's complex ethnic weave. "There's the Mediterranean style of Capone," Connery notes, "very much in favor of the pleasures of life. Then the Wasp syndrome of Ness, very puritan. And finally the European-Irish cop -- me -- in the middle, finding his way through that minefield...
...Sack Cheri...
...abruptly fired after presenting a plan to take the company private and oust Johnston as boss, according to members of the J.W.T. board of directors. The directors, who decided that O'Donnell's behavior was grossly inappropriate, deliberated for about an hour before giving Johnston the go-ahead to sack...