Word: ultimatum
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...Lawyers for the Miami relatives, meanwhile, have accepted the Justice Department ultimatum to agree to an expedited appeal process. They filed papers Monday calling for a speedy ruling in their appeal against a federal judge's decision that upheld the government's ruling that the boy's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, remains Elian's legal guardian, and that he should therefore be sent home in accordance with his guardian's wishes. A decision may come within a week, but even that may not bring the matter to a close. "If they lose in the courts, the Miami family may again...
...defense," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They buy those things to give the U.S. an economic incentive to keep on supporting them, actually funneling some of their oil revenues back into the U.S. economy." Of course, threatening to remove of U.S. military resources might be a more effective ultimatum, but then the reason the U.S. sent its army there in the first place was to stop Saudi oil reserves from falling into the hands of Saddam Hussein, so they're hardly likely to pull out and let the Iraqi dictator duke it out with Osama bin Laden to fill...
...passenger van owned and operated by a man named Gus, who, I would learn years later, died of a heart attack in the men's room at The Sands in Las Vegas. Gus had been married several times, and his last marriage ended when his wife gave him an ultimatum: me or horses. Gus chose horses...
Yale protesters said they have given the administration an ultimatum for taking action...
...hard men who've always been dubious about surrendering their weapons, even though those weapons are silent. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness may have thought they could deliver at least a token IRA commitment by the end of January, but they clearly can't - and Trimble's ultimatum, if anything, has made their task even more difficult, because the IRA has been adamant that it won't disarm in response to pressure from its enemies." No wonder McGuinness appeared on the verge of tears at his last media conference. Right now there's no lonelier place in Northern Ireland than...