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A federal judge ruled the firing of Cox illegal.
By contrast, unless the stars realign, Trump’s firing of Comey may mark the beginning of nothing, or at least of nothing bad for the president.
It is possible, of course, that Trump’s firing of Comey will push some Republicans to decide that enough is enough and follow Baker’s example.
For the moment, though, there is no reason to see Trump’s firing of Comey as a re-run of Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre,” or any other event in American political history.
But his dishonesty concerning the size of the crowd at his inauguration, the payment of hush money to women, or his reasons for firing former FBI Director James Comey has nothing to do with statecraft.
Moreover, it is likely that, within a few months, UN soldiers would once again find themselves between the firing lines of the conflicting parties.
If Hollande’s tax hikes – on income (including a temporary 75% tax rate for the country’s wealthiest households), dividends, capital gains, and capital assets – are not enough to deter entrepreneurs, the cost of hiring workers and the difficulty of firing them remain powerful disincentives.
There was no high-level firing: the only dismissal of any note was that of the White House aide in charge of homeland security, who was forced out at the behest of John Bolton, who had just taken over as Trump’s third national security adviser in 15 months.
Trump, according to many observers, has absorbed the idea that firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the probe, wouldn’t go down well at all.
At week’s end, a memoir by former FBI director James Comey, whose firing by Trump led to Mueller’s appointment, began to leak, also arousing Trump’s ire.
Yunus’s tussle with the government of Bangladesh, which had tried to retire him on grounds of age (he is 70) before firing him from his own board, is entangled in his country’s complicated politics.
One instructor joked that although the Geneva conventions barred firing a 50-caliber machine gun at an enemy soldier - an act defined as "excessive force" - we could aim at his helmet or backpack, since these were "equipment."
A prime example is Yahoo’s firing of Henrique De Castro in 2014.
Indeed, the latest bout of turmoil began with Trump’s sudden firing on May 9 of FBI director James Comey.
In this rare snippet of honesty – that he had hoped firing Comey would head off an investigation into collusion – Trump may have admitted to obstruction of justice.
In 1993, central-government leaders enjoyed relatively limited powers: they did not control the money supply and had difficulty firing provincial governors or relocating top generals.
In February, Syria’s state news agency accused jihadi rebels of firing a rocket containing chemical materials in Khan al-Assal – an allegation that the British television outlet Channel Four backs.
Encouragingly, after a gap of seven months when no military supplies could reach Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass – a cutoff that followed the death of Pakistani soldiers at the hands of NATO troops firing across the border – NATO trucks in early July were finally allowed to cross again.
For Huntington, the most dangerous combination is the "confucian-islamic connection", ganging up against the West and, at least in his imagination, firing nuclear missiles at Christian France.
Reducing the cost of firing workers will not increase demand for labor much when no one wants to hire new workers.
After firing an opening salvo of steep tariffs on steel and aluminum, the US administration has released a plan for a 25% tariff on 1,333 Chinese imports – worth about $50 billion last year – to punish China for what it views as decades of intellectual property theft.
The German bureaucratic engine has been firing on all cylinders to process asylum claims and facilitate integration.
He follows a long tradition of blaming the legal constraints on firing workers for the fall in permanent employment and the emergence of a new division between protected and precarious employees – between insiders, with well-paid, quasi-tenured positions, and outsiders, who work as service providers without benefits and often under zero-hour contracts.
Indeed, there is evidence that where the penalty for firing workers is low, private business takes the risk of hiring more of them.
And yet, even if he does, Kim’s own penchant for drama – from firing missiles over Japan to carrying out frequent purges at home – suggests that he knows how to command the stage and bring Trump to the table.
But back then, there was almost no unemployment, peaking at 12%, because Russia’s Labor Code makes firing employees hard and very costly.
Likewise, workplace rampages are often triggered by a firing or layoff.
After hiring and firing personnel and shaping strategy during the election campaign, Trump’s children have remained front and center in his transition team.
Around 50 years ago, it was proposed to study the strong forces by firing protons at each other at very high energies.
I noted some reasons for this reversal in my earlier column: the world economy is now firing on all cylinders.
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