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• But [_ARG0 Sony] [_ARGM-TMP ultimately] took a lesson from the American management books and [_rel fired] [_ARG1 Mr. Katzenstein] , [_ARGM-TMP after he committed the social crime of * making an appointment * to see the venerable Akio Morita , founder of Sony] .
• [_ARG1 Mrs. Yeargin] was [_rel fired] *-1 and prosecuted *-1 [_ARGM-ADV under an unusual South Carolina law that *T*-79 makes it *EXP*-2 a crime * to breach test security] .
• While [_ARG0 Mrs. Ward] [_rel fired] and restructured [_ARG1 staff] and struggled *-1 to improve curriculum , Mrs. Yeargin worked 14-hour days and fast became a student favorite .
• Troubled NBI Inc. said 0 [_ARG0 it] [_rel fired] [_ARG1 more than half its work force] and is discontinuing its hardware business *-1 to focus on its software and service operations .
• But people familiar with the agenda of the board 's meeting last week in London said 0 [_ARG1 Mr. McGovern] was [_rel fired] *-42 .
• Mr. McGovern himself had said repeatedly that he intended *-1 to stay on until he reached the conventional retirement age of 65 in October 1991 , `` unless [<sub>ARG1</sub> I] get [<sub>rel</sub> fired] . ''
• Mr. Horton , who *T*-213 oversaw Gulf Power 's governmental-affairs efforts , died mysteriously in a plane crash in April after *-1 learning 0 [<sub>ARG1</sub> he] [<sub>ARGM-MOD</sub> might] be [<sub>rel</sub> fired] *-187 following the uncovering of irregularities in a company audit .
• Nissan handled the die-hards in a typically Japanese fashion : [<sub>ARG1</sub> They] were [<sub>ARGM-NEG</sub> n't] [<sub>rel</sub> fired] *-2 but instead `` were neglected *-2 , '' says 0 *T*-1 Kouji Hori , the personnel manager at the Nissan Technical Center .
• Mr. Gatward has spent a lot of time since late September at MTM 's headquarters ; [_ARG0 he] eliminated three departments and [_rel fired] [_ARG1 six executives] , according to the TVS spokesman .
• The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , resigned because [_ARG0 Prime Minister Thatcher] [_ARGM-MOD would] [_ARGM-NEG not] [_rel fire] [_ARG1 her trusted adviser Sir Alan Walters] .
• [_ARG0 CBS News] , which as recently as two years ago *T*-1 [_rel fired] [_ARG1 hundreds of its employees] [_ARGM-LOC in budget cutbacks] , now hires featured actors beginning at $ 2,700 *U* a week .
• [_ARG1 I] remembered *-3 being [_rel fired] *-1 [_ARGM-TMP at age 44] , [_ARGM-ADV with five children at home] , [_ARGM-TMP when my views and actions were deemed *-2 unsettling by a timid , small-town employer *T*-4] .
• He succeeded [_ARG1 Pat Brown] , who *T*-1 was [_rel fired] *-2 by [_ARG0-by the Alley board] [_ARGM-TMP 18 months ago] .
• [_ARGM-TMP Earlier this year] , [_ARG0 public television station WGBH in Boston] [_rel fired] [_ARG1 Mr. Vila] [_ARGM-TMP after a sponsor protested some of his numerous commercial endorsements] .
• Later they said 0 [_ARG0 they] [_rel fired] [_ARG1 him] , and two directors attempted *-1 to place the company under bankruptcy-law protection .
• It means 0 it *EXP*-1 is virtually impossible [_ARG0 *] to [_rel fire] or even transfer [_ARG1 incompetent principals] .
• [_ARG1 Mr. Volokh] was [_rel fired] *-1 from [_ARG2-from his job] , and had *-1 to endure hours of organized verbal abuse from his co-workers , accusations of sabotage and counterrevolutionary activities .
• Soon after the merger , moreover , Federal 's management asked Tiger 's pilots *-2 to sign an agreement stating that [_ARG1 they] [_ARGM-MOD could] be [_rel fired] *-1 [_ARGM-TMP any time] , [_ARGM-MNR without cause or notice] .
• It was a gutsy move for [_ARG1 a little-known executive] , [_rel fired] * [_ARGM-TMP after only two months as president of his previous company] .
• [_ARGM-TMP After months of internal rumblings] , [_ARG1 Mr. Ngoc] was [_rel fired] *-1 [_ARGM-TMP last December] .
• The last time 0 Columbia Pictures was looking for a studio chief *T*-2 , they note 0 *T*-3 , Warner released producer David Puttnam from his contract , then took him back after [_ARG1 he] was [_ARGM-TMP subsequently] [_rel fired] *-1 by [_ARG0-by his bosses at Columbia] .
• MAITRE'D CLAIMS in suit that [_ARG0 restaurant] [_rel fired] [_ARG1 her] [_ARGM-CAU because she was pregnant] .
• The suit alleges that [_ARG1 Ms. Levine] was [_rel fired] *-1 [_ARGM-TMP after she refused *-2 to accept a lower paying , less visible job upon *-3 reaching her sixth month of pregnancy] .
• Ms. Moss said 0 Ms. Levine secretly taped many conversations with her bosses at the Odeon in which they told her 0 [_ARG1 she] was being [_rel fired] as [_ARG2-as maitre 'd] [_ARGM-CAU because she was pregnant] *T*-1 .
• He said 0 [_ARG1 Ms. Levine] had [_ARGM-TMP never] been [_rel fired] *-1 , [_ARGM-ADV although she had stopped *-2 working at the restaurant] .
• [_ARG1 That division 's manager] has been [_rel fired] *-1 .
• On a day 0 some United Airlines employees wanted [_ARG1 Mr. Wolf] [_rel fired] *-2 and takeover stock speculators wanted his scalp *T*-1 , Messrs. Wolf and Pope saw their prospective personal fortunes continue *-3 to plummet *PPA*-5 as shares of UAL , United 's parent company , dived $ 24.875 *U* on the Big Board *-4 to close at $ 198 *U* .
• [_ARGM-TMP One week later] , [_ARG1 Leonard H. Roberts , president and chief executive officer of Arby 's ,] was [_rel fired] *-1 [_ARGM-ADV in a dispute with Mr. Posner] .