Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Massachusetts politicians often talk about something which they call "the system"--the unwritten, rigid rules which govern life up on Beacon Hill. White's ultimatum was in utter defiance of "the system." Indeed, "the system" decreed that the price White would probably have to pay for his interference with the legislative process would be the scuttling of legislation that he might propose as Mayor of Boston. The risk was a great one but White probably realized or at least sensed the sharpness of Davoren's desire to replace him and also sensed Quinn's quietly seething ambition to become Speaker...
...capital, 3,200 soldiers of both sides were killed. The ferocity of the attack threw the 10,000-man Republican army into such confusion that an entire regiment reportedly deserted to the Royalists. With his artillery zeroing in on the outskirts of San'a, the prince sent an ultimatum: "Surrender the city or be annihilated...
Administrators of the PBH programs are moving from charity to more socially and politically active positions. Two weeks ago, the PBH program working at the Cambridge Community Center delivered an ultimatum to the Center's Administrative Board. Robert A. Goodin '68, co-chairman of the cultural enrichment program, threatened to pull out of the Center unless its administration was taken over by the residents of the neighborhood in which it operates. He said there was no justification for a non-indigenous group to be there unless it was directly responsive to the needs and wants of the neighborhood. Residents...
...university has presented us with an ultimatum,' said Robert Richardson, president of the maintenance workers association and a member of the workers' negotiating group. They represent more than 250 Harvard employees, including carpenters, plumbers, groundskeepers, electricians, truckdrivers and mechanics...
...United States exerts considerable influence over Greek domestic politics, and its policies have been ambivalent. Massive U.S. military aid (about $70 million annually) and tacit support of the King against the majority's wishes helped make last April's coup possible; now the Administration has apparently delivered an ultimatum to the junta to restore constitutional freedoms within a specified time...