Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...university's Board of Regents last night issued an ultimatum saying that the Daily Cal must fire the three editors by noon Monday or the contract with the printer will be terminated...
...true. Last December, production workers halted publication of the Evening Standard when its editor refused to remove a cartoon critical of British electrical workers who were staging a nationwide slowdown. Last year the Sunday Observer bowed to an ultimatum delivered midway in its press run and removed an anonymous letter criticizing union practices in the newspaper industry. It was, admitted Editor David Astor, "not a very courageous decision...
...Gordon joined the organization in 1950. Gordon promoted the idea of starting Midas Muffler Shops -franchised retail outlets with specialists in trim uniforms. The Midas idea caught on quickly, and after sales hit $42 million in 1967-much of it from the muffler shops-Gordon laid down an ultimatum: he would resign if his father did not hand over the presidency. Reluctantly, Nate assented and stepped up to the chairmanship...
Running Conflict. The broadcast ultimatum came as a stunning shock to Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, 46, who was fond of saying that only a parliamentary majority could depose him. But the military left him no room for maneuver, and he quickly resigned...
...Handshakes. Soon after his 1969 ultimatum, Hesburgh hit his Notre Dame nadir. The worst of it was the anger of liberal students and teachers who had flocked to Notre Dame because of Hesburgh's insistence that the university combine intellectual freedom with its prayers and football. Many viewed his ultimatum as an attack on academic freedom, not a defense...