In April, Hernandez was told he would be fired, whereupon he too resigned.

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On September 16, 2005 Taylor and Esther sent a letter to Boyd, telling him that when his contract was up in little over a year, he would be fired.

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Shares of Morgan Stanley (nyse: MWD - news - people ) shot up nearly 5% in afternoon trading on speculation that he would be fired over the weekend.

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Furthermore, if Pernetti were a Department Chair or Dean who chose to rehabilitate an offending faculty member for committing such overt abuses despite damning and convincing visual evidence, he would be fired as well for allowing such a person to remain on staff despite repeated physical, verbal, and mental abuses aimed at young men.

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Seoul's Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said Monday he still believes the missile would be fired soon.

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New York public relations consultant Ken Makovsky says that in the corporate world, a staffer would be fired if he made a statement that so undermined the CEO.

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But he said for it to be "fully convincing", Mr Cameron should be clear he would rule out all "dirty" coal fired power stations - including plans for a new plant at Kingsnorth, Kent.

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It was perhaps inevitable that Bent, discarded by Spurs last summer, would be fired up for this one, but he managed to inspire his team-mates to greater heights as well in an electrifying start by the home side.

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