Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...athletic ability makes it almost funny watching opponents try to sack Yohe. Tom-be-nimble, Tom-be-quick, Tom throws to receiver beyond the first-down stick...
...Universities Funding Council, to be appointed by Baker, will be empowered to make grants subject to certain undefined "terms and conditions" -- a phrase that academics fear may portend industry-style contracting. And abolishing tenure, says Paul Cottrell of the Association of University Teachers, "will make academics easier to sack." The ultimate result, he adds, will be to make it "more difficult to protect their academic freedom...
...Both papers reported the incident, naming Cohen as the source of the leak. MARLENE JOHNSON ARRESTS DISCLOSED BY WHITNEY ALLY, declared the front-page headline in the Star Tribune. Columnist Jim Klobuchar, a friend of Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Rudy Perpich, then decried Cohen as a "sleazy" player. Cartoonist Steve Sack drew Cohen trick- or-treating at Perpich headquarters dressed as a trash can labeled "Last minute campaign smears...
...Forgive the present, Yevgeny Alexandrovich, but it's a precious thing nowadays," said a distant relative as she put a sack of sugar, almost impossible to find, on our May Day holiday table. This was in the 71st year of Soviet power, over 40 years after the war! And suddenly I caught myself happy with the small domestic predatory joy of obtaining, which for so many of us substitutes for any real joy of existence. The woman sighed and said, "Look what we've come to . . . And it's all the fault of our damned priterpelost...
Delvalle, meanwhile, had grown convinced that Noriega would have to go. But nothing suggested that the President had the nerve to sack the general. A graduate of Louisiana State University and a former sugar-company executive, Delvalle was Vice President in 1985, when Noriega fired President Nicolas Ardito Barletta. Associates say Delvalle has increasingly sought to become his own man. "He didn't want to go into history as a Panamanian who lacked the guts to do what his country needed," explains a close friend. "Delvalle was not pressured by the U.S. to do this. He was pressured...