"With these shootings, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, anthrax, it seems like anything can happen, anytime," said Steve Ridgely, a mail processor for the Postal Service who picked up his son Christopher, 8, at a school in Silver Spring where 100 parent volunteers watched over dismissal.
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The at-will doctrine lubricates vibrant labor markets by reducing the costs and the stakes of disputes over dismissal.
LAST month, when Donald Trump used his signature "You're fired" line on his own "Apprentice'' co-star, Carolyn Kepcher, viewers of the hit show picked over the dismissal of Mr. Trump's cool blond assistant, questioning how someone so public and so popular could be so unceremoniously drop-kicked.
Frankly, any reasonably successful woman past the age of 40 has experienced these kinds of dismissals over and over again.
She had been working in the office of Paul J. McNulty, the deputy attorney general who resigned this year in the wake of the controversy over the dismissals of United States attorneys.
Stournaras, a technocrat widely credited with smoothing often fraught relations between Greece and its foreign lenders, has encountered mounting hostility from within the tripartite government over the dismissals.
There, he played a key role in investigating the scandal over the dismissals of United States attorneys in 2006, including some who were removed for political reasons.
The report, prepared jointly by the office of the inspector general, Glenn A. Fine, and the Office of Professional Responsibility, is the first in a series of internal reviews growing out of last year's controversy over the dismissals of nine United States attorneys.
In an interview, Mr. Albregts said he believed the Hamptons might have a civil claim against Mr. Ensign over their dismissals from his staff and the consequences for their family.
