Word: ultimatums
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...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...
...Wednesday, the Faculty Council voted to dump its ultimatum to the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) in favor an ageold stall tactic: they want to study the problem further. Specifically, the council gave its committee on ROTC an extension in preparing its report until next fall...
...backing down from its ultimatum, the University offers a poor precedent for other schools and an empty threat to the Pentagon. MIT and the University of Wisconsin, among other colleges, have considered cutting ties to ROTC...
...THIS should be done soon. The Faculty Council voted nearly two years ago to levy the ultimatum against the Department of Defense. That should have been plenty of time to come up with a funding plan to allow needy ROTC students to attend the school (i.e., deepening the need-blind admissions coffers...
Michael said he thinks the committee's delay,and its abandonment of the ultimatum, is a goodsign...