Word: ultimatumed
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...sign a constitutional amendment providing for the early election of a new head of state. To virtually all parties, Franjieh's replacement is an essential prerequisite to any political settlement. Indeed, before Franjieh ended his holdout last week, Moslem Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt had issued a grim ultimatum: he would form "a revolutionary government" and "liberate" Christian strongholds unless the President left office...
...caught between women's rights and my respect for the Senate." Conceding that he had been sorely troubled by his wife's job, he later hinted to newsmen that he had asked her to resign. A family friend put it more bluntly: "He has given her an ultimatum." Would she quit? Marion "wants time, a quiet time, to think about her position," said Marvin Frankel, a top executive at Ruder & Finn, her public relations firm...
...company would be forced to shut down its five major plants in Britain and cashier its 25,000 employees there. For a while it seemed that Riccardo, whose sometimes brusque manner long ago earned him the nickname "the Flamethrower," would have to do just that. Wilson denounced the Riccardo ultimatum, angrily protesting that Chrysler had left the government "with a pistol at its head." But last week in a startling, if characteristically Wilsonian, about-face, the Prime Minister agreed to help out Chrysler after...
Riccardo's ultimatum was an act of corporate chutzpah: Wilson's Labor government is responsible for Chrysler's troubles only in the sense that it has been unable to prevent the inflation and recession that have added to the company's woes. Chrysler also has many troubles of its own. Since it came to Britain in 1964, it has introduced only one genuinely new car, the rather ordinary five-passenger Avenger sedan; its two other models-the Volkswagen-like Imp and the Hunter-were developed by Rootes Motors Ltd., the company that Chrysler bought. Accordingly, Chrysler...
Riccardo's ultimatum has now presented Wilson with what one government official calls "an agonizing dilemma." A Chrysler pullout would wipe out not only 25,000 jobs in the company's own plants but perhaps 60,000 more in related industries. Workers are threatening to take over the plants if Chrysler goes home. A shutdown of the 7,000-worker factory in Lin wood, Scotland, might fan the flames of Scottish nationalism. And the Shah of Iran has ordered 126,000 Hunters in kit form; Wilson is not eager to anger one of Britain's principal suppliers...