Word: shake-up
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...Sudden shake...
...future that appeared to be bright and secure. Yet the affable, mild-mannered president and chief executive officer of ITT had just returned from a three-week swing through the Pacific last week when, with stunning swiftness, the board fired him. The year's most astonishing management shake-up showed just how little job security there...
When President Bok replaced Pusey in 1971, he reorganized the University's administrative structure to accomodate these changes.. This included a shake-up of employee relations, staff. For Pusey's director of personnel, Bok substituted in-house lawyers--Steiner as general counsel and Power as associate general counsel--to handle legal issues related to employees. "There was a definite conscious attempt at reorganization," Powers says. "Bok made this a more business-oriented university, and brought in people to make it more businesslike," he adds...
...national acclaim as a writer and TV commentator. One of his later plays, The Assassins, dealt with a plot to kill a general in a police state. His defection, and his subsequent BBC and Radio Free Europe broadcasts, had been an embarrassment to the Sofia government and triggered a shake-up in its propaganda establishment. The 1977 defection of Kostov, formerly a political commentator and correspondent for the state radio and television, meant more loss of government prestige, and of sensitive political information...
...other RAF suspects, Adelheid Schulz and Christian Klar, to get away after keeping them under close surveillance for two weeks. The cops had even photographed the trio boarding a rented helicopter to make aerial reconnaissance surveys of the homes of potential victims. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ordered a shake-up of the antiterrorist force...