Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimatum for Bonn as kidnapers and skyjackers ally
...government in which the majority in the Knesset will express its confidence. We will not even try to form a minority government as Labor has now. We consider the Democratic Movement for Change to be a serious candidate for the coalition. But we would not accept a D.M.C. ultimatum that we hold new elections in two years to get electoral reform. I would like a national unity government because now is an exceptional situation for Israel, both externally and internally. It is a serious situation. 1977 might be the year of political negotiations...
...management cheering. The tender-offer announcement, which caught Wall Street by surprise, followed weeks of fruitless overtures by Gray to B&W's chairman, George Zipf. Last week, after Gray had finally managed to see Zipf twice to no avail, he rocketed off what amounted to an ultimatum, telling Zipf that he had until week's end to declare whether B & W would fight the offer. Zipfs reply was both immediate and curt. He dismissed the April 1 deadline as "totally unrealistic," and warned that the unilateral manner in which Gray had publicly announced the takeover might damage...
...owns 95% of its stock, threatened to cut off promised investment funds if management could not end the walkout. Militant Laborite Hugh Scanlon, president of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, which represents the toolmakers, joined Leyland's labor relations boss Pat Lowry to endorse a strikebreaking ultimatum: go back on the job by Monday or get the sack. With reverse English, Tory politicians and press threw their weight behind the strikers. "Union bosses must act for their members, not the government," wrote Tory Employment Spokesman James Prior in the Times...
...that the Pistons are hardly the Waltons. General Manager Feldman acknowledged as much at the end of January, when he announced a moratorium on disharmony, adding that Brown would be offered a contract for next season and that no trades-requested or not-would be made. Feldman followed his ultimatum by inviting Porter and Brown to breakfast. On the menu: bagels, Nova Scotia salmon and soft soap. Bagel diplomacy seems to have worked, but the rest of the league may live to regret it. The Pistons' combativeness has shifted its focus; Detroit players have been in fistfights with opponents...