Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Rodino set up a special staff to study the question of impeachment, O'Neill kept badgering him regularly: "How do you think it's going? Are we moving?" When Rodino delayed too long in naming a special counsel, O'Neill delivered an ultimatum: "You've got to have your man before we go home for Christmas." In December Rodino named John Doar, who had O'Neill's approval because he was a Republican and thus could not be attacked for partisanship...
...just that-a means of keeping the Japanese posted on the outcome of the Peking talks, but the Middle East crisis gave the visit a more urgent tone. More than 80% of Japan's oil has been coming from the Middle East. While reports of a formal Arab "ultimatum" were denied by government sources in Tokyo, TIME learned that Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani suggested to the Japanese ambassador that in order to be classed as a "friendly" nation, Japan should break relations with Israel. Tanaka told Kissinger that to get supplies, Japan would have to abandon...