If you wish to remember Lithuania's 200,000 slain Jews, you have to wander far from the main drag, up a side street, to the tiny Green House – which is anyway closed for renovation and whose director, under pressure from state officials, is fighting for her job.
In May, with its lead independent director under pressure from Ackman to meet, Allergan brought on Wachtell's David Katz and Daniel Neff, who had successfully defended other companies, including Airgas, in hostile campaigns, as additional board counsel.
Critics like Walter Byers, a former N.C.A.A. executive director, have complained of a "neo-plantation" system of college sports in which athletes are pawns while high-priced coaches and athletic directors — under pressure to win — exercise the power of kings.
With BBC director of television Danny Cohen leaving and creative director Alan Yentob under pressure, Monkey was wondering how the BBC might fill their shoes.
Mr. Case, who will remain a director, resigned under pressure from some major shareholders.
The basketball coach was fired, the athletic director resigned under pressure and the team forfeited all but one victory.
Mike Wadsworth, the former athletic director, resigned under pressure last month after a tumultuous five years that included a downturn in the football program.
Even after the daring feat that opens the movie — Ethan extracts a shipment of nerve gas from an airborne airplane, with the help of his technically skilled associates Benji (Simon Pegg and Lutherr (Ving Rhames) — the C.I.A. director (Alec Baldwin), under pressure from a congressional committee, decides to disband the I.M.F. and capture or, more likely, kill Ethan.
A3 U.S. to Release Chile Files The C.I.A. director, George J. Tenet, under pressure from the White House, was said to have agreed to release hundreds of documents relating to American covert operations in Chile around the time of the military coup in 1973 that ousted President Salvador Allende Gossens.
But, even though it is an individual sport, as it is a home Olympics, the performance director is under pressure too.
1989 is also the year that a traveling exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe scheduled to be hosted by the Corcoran Museum in Washington, DC was unceremoniously cancelled for obscenity by the museum's director, Christina Orr-Cahall, under pressure from the religious right.
