Language Purists Sack 'You're Fired!'
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DETROIT - From wardrobe malfunctions to erectile dysfunction, it's been a tough year all around for the guardians of English - language purists from blue, red and battleground states who long to say "You're fired!" to offensive words and phrases.
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The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair Broadcast Group said he was fired Monday after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry's Vietnam-era anti-war activities.
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With the office suitably perverted, and staff uninspired and bitter, Screwpole is for once pleased The Project Manager is completely unable to explain why his staff are behaving so miserably (unaware that the stifling office environment is sucking all the enjoyment and creativity out of the team) and is resorting to micromanagement to sort things out. Bad move â his team is a mixed bunch, some more capable than others and the PMâs directorial approach is making some of them resentfulâ¦â¦
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Project failure 2.0 Remember when Java father James Gosling got flamed for uttering the ultimate Web 2.0 heresy: scripting languages aren't good enough for enterprises?â¦
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Two Metro newspaper officials who made racial slurs at company meetings in 2003 resigned yesterday as the international publishing company tried to extinguish a controversy in advance of closing a $16.5 million deal with The New York Times Co.
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An errant "Akeelah" tchotchke needs a shot of Grammar Rock.
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Journalists who advise boards to "sell the company" or "fire all the executives," but have no management experience, lack credibility. They also sound like complete idiots.
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Euphemism and allegory have always been common in business &#151; where few get fired, but plenty get "downsized" &#151; but some say the tongue-twisting technology industry has gone too far.
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Newcastle United fired Bobby Robson as manager Monday after the northeast English side suffered a turmoil-plagued start to its Premiership season.
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RadioShack on Tuesday followed through on plans to lay off 400 employees as part of an effort to cut expenses and become more competitive in the marketplace, but the method in which the firings occurred has some fuming. The company notified customers of their dismissal through e-mail.
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Universal Pictures is accused of sacking an employee because of his race, reports Peter Bowes.
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The German TV network NDR sacks a leading talk show host after she praised the Nazis' family model.
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PHILADELPHIA - An officer who ordered two women to put on a "sex show" in a jail cell will be fired.
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First female coach of a men's pro team was fired after dispute with co-owner.
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With so many jobs pruned from corporate payrolls in recent years, interest in the gestalt of being fired -- the hows and whys, the trauma and consequences -- is understandably high. Witness the surprising success of the television series &quot;The Apprentice.&quot;
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The Apprentice returns, but Oracle's Ellison is the one telling 5,000, "You're fired!"
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A "surge" of overused words and phrases formed a "perfect storm" of "post-9/11" cliches in 2007, according to a U.S. university's annual list of words and phrases that deserve to be banned.