Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There were complex alternatives that could have been more fully considered by the President, such as issuing a clear warning to Japan that the U.S. had created an atomic weapon, perhaps combined with a demonstration detonation and a surrender ultimatum that made clear that Japan could retain its Emperor. Likewise McCullough skirts the tortured debate on "atomic diplomacy," reducing it to the question of whether the Bomb was dropped in part to frighten the Soviets and then quickly dismissing this theory without exploring the complexities of revisionist arguments over the causes of the cold...
Former President Derek C. Bok fired off a strongly worded letter to Secretary of Defense Richard B. Cheney. Just weeks later, Dean of the Facutly A. Michael Spence and the Faculty Council issued a public ultimatum: The school would cut ties with Reserve officers Training Corps if the military didn't end its discriminatory policy in two years...
Concerned about regulating the extracurricular and financial aid options of Harvard's 150 ROTC cadets, Knowles said he was not bound by the old ultimatum and insisted on a fresh debate...
...students even woke up early one morning tomeet Clark outside his home and walk him to work,after an eight-day ultimatum they had issuedexpired...
...months and are having a hard time supporting their families on benefits of $100 a week. But when Caterpillar chairman Donald Fites warned them to return to work last Monday or lose their jobs to permanent replacements, all but about 400 obeyed the union call to disregard the company ultimatum. The company began advertising in area newspapers last Monday for new applicants. A special Caterpillar telephone number installed to handle requests about job information received 56,000 attempted calls in one three-hour period...