Word: ultimatums
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...press conference, Servan-Schreiber said that the Cabinet had never discussed the tests: "The military faced the Cabinet with a fait accompli." That proved to be his undoing. Hours later, Defense Minister Jacques Soufflet, a hard-line Gaullist and a chief proponent of testing, issued an ultimatum: Giscard and Chirac would have to choose between him and Servan-Schreiber. They promptly dismissed Servan-Schreiber, the Premier explaining tersely, "The views he expressed this morning are incompatible with the basic principles of our policy...
Everybody knows that the cost of living went up slightly more than 10 per cent last year and has been going up every month this year and generous Harvard delivered the printers an ultimatum--take 5.5 per cent or we phase...
...April. Printers were ordered to work at different speeds: "normal, slow and very slow." This tactic played havoc with News deadlines, prevented the publishing of more than 700 ad pages in 19 days, and cost the paper some $2 million in lost revenue. News officials responded with an ultimatum: either the printers tighten up by May 6 or the slack would be handled by automation. When the publishers made good on their threat, Powers acted...
...reputation depended on our making some sort of protest. I saw that the only way out was to present the United States with an ultimatum: the Americans would have to apologize officially for sending their spy plane into the U.S.S.R., and the President of the United States would have to retract what he said about America's "right" to conduct reconnaissance over our territory...
Hearst has asked other papers and local radio and television stations to comply with the S.L.A. ultimatum concerning coverage. Chronicle Editor and Publisher Charles de Young Thieriot, a close friend of Hearst's, readily agreed...