The sudden change ended the tenure of one of the most powerful women in television and stunned many of the company's employees at a time when MTV Networks, which includes channels like MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and VH1, is riding a surge in both ratings for its programs and profits for its parent company, Viacom.
The past decade also featured Willie Randolph's unsmiling tenure; Mike Piazza's sudden physical breakdown; Roberto Alomar's bizarre under-performance; and Mo Vaughn's weighty failure.
In these waning days of his tenure, Cardinal O'Connor's sudden quiet has been striking, Bishop Sheridan said, especially for a leader whose trademark has been speaking out on pressing moral and political issues.
Pendleton tried to steer the commission into a conservative direction in line with Reagan's views on social and civil rights policy during his time as tenure from 1981 until his sudden death in 1988.
Indeed, it's a small fraction of the apparent profits Halliburton created through a sudden change in accounting procedures during Dick Cheney's tenure as chief executive.
Smith decided that he "clearly... had no option" and on 9 September 1976 executed a sudden cabinet reshuffle that ended Van der Byl's tenure as Defence Minister.
For Tinkler, the sudden change came just less than two years into his tenure.
"He had been head of the white hats, the good guys," Mr. Twetten said of Mr. Webster's tenure at the F.B.I, "and all of a sudden the White House assigns him to be in charge of the black hats, the dirty rotten spies".
A capsule summary on the DealBook page on Wednesday about the sudden retirement of Jasjit Bhattal as head of Nomura Holdings' wholesale banking division misstated his tenure as chief executive.
Financial "shortcomings" led to the sudden resignation of EA's last CEO Riccitiello, in March after a six-year tenure.
