Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stone, the short fat "Spandex miniskirt king" (Danny DeVito) plots with his nymphomaniac red-headed mistress to murder his wife. But when Stone gets home with the chloroform, he discovers his wife has been kidnapped. This makes him happy--all he has to do is ignore the abducter's ultimatum: $500,000 or a dead wife. Right...
Enter Lorenzo with an offer to buy Eastern. Borman was by then negotiating night and day with the airline's unions. He delivered an ultimatum: accept 20% wage cuts or the airline would either sell out or go under. The pilots agreed to Borman's terms, and the flight attendants tentatively accepted a pact, but the machinists' union balked. That led to a confrontation between Borman and Charles Bryan, a 30-year company veteran who has led the machinists since 1979 and been an Eastern board member since 1983. Known as Chairman Charlie because of his power in the company...
...majority of students who have worked in the institute during the last decade. I have recently spoken with almost every former president of the Review, as well as with numerous members of the SAC. They all agree that the SAC and the institute had no power to issue an ultimatum concerning the structure of the magazine or its editorial content. Such action is a jarring break with the past. It lacks all legitimacy, except the legitimacy that accompanies brute strength...
February 11: Eighteen demonstrators are arrested while protesting the removal of a shanty from the Green. The DCD had moved the other three shanties in response to an ultimatum from the college administration...
...Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe asked rhetorically, "What's merry about all this? We're fighting, it's cold, we aren't home." Yet McAuliffe cheered up his troops, who held on valiantly until the German advance was blunted. The general's one-word reply to a Nazi ultimatum to surrender--"Nuts!"--made history of its own and epitomized the defiant spirit of one of the Army's finest units...