Howard has long been clamoring for an exit from Orlando, and he was finally granted his wish, though not before playing a role in the firing of head coach Stan Van Gundy and resignation of general manager Otis Smith.

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That atmosphere has ramped up with the injury to starting QB Tony Romo, their abysmal record of 1-7 which has them now sitting at in dead last in the NFC East, and the firing of head coach Wade Phillips.

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So that is why as a professor of sports business and a lawyer looking at sports contracts, I see so much to interest me during the hiring and firing season which began with the firing of head coach Wade Phillips by the Dallas Cowboys and got a second casualty when Colorado fired Dan Hawkins.

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The alleged documents leak, along with the firing of the head of the Vatican Bank, are aimed at weakening the authority of the pope's second-in-command, they say.

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He managed to push Mr Osborne into agreeing that the committee would have to approve the firing of the head of the OBR as well - an important extra concession.

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Last year, the scandal led to the November firing of iconic head coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier and brought charges against Schultz and Curley for perjury and failing to report the abuse.

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Having spent the past several months assisting the NHLPA with a rewrite of its constitution and heading the search committee for a new executive director, Fehr seems to have brought some hope to an association some thought was falling apart following the firing of former association head, Paul Kelly.

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For example, in 2002, the White House directly ordered the firing of former Republican congressman Mike Parker of Mississippi as head of the Army Corps of Engineers because he publicly disagreed with the administration's budget request for his agency.

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"Although developing countries didn't make this crisis, it has become all too clear that they are in the firing line when it comes to suffering its worst effects, " Claire Melamed, Head of Policy at ActionAid said in a statement accompanying the report.

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Then Gore tried to relaunch it as a talking head channel to the left of MSNBC, hiring Keith Olbermann -- a relationship that ended with his firing and mutual lawsuits -- along with the likes of Eliot Spitzer and Jennifer Granholm, former Michigan governor.

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