ESPN swiftly fired the employee involved, but the incident was big enough news to inspire a "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
The woman thanked Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, for swiftly firing Mr. Moreno and Mr. Mata because of the official-misconduct convictions.
She once got a job singing Hey Big Spender at a Manchester strip club, but was swiftly fired for refusing to take off her underwear.
Mr. Cuban swiftly fired back, accusing the regulator of "prosecutorial misconduct" and alleging that he was the victim of a political vendetta by the agency in the waning days of the Bush administration.
A couple of months earlier, "the dongle scandal" rippled through Silicon Valley, after a female developer, Adria Richards, complained about immature jokes overheard at the PyCon conference; one of the men involved was swiftly fired, as was Richards, who was then harshly ridiculed.
News swiftly fired the Washington bureau chief following a hot mic moment and ensuing media controversy.
Ewing-Brown and Biggs both said the manager arrived and swiftly fired Ewing-Brown.
The last time a public broadcasting outlet swiftly fired a host before all the details were known, they were roundly criticized.
As corroborated by other former employees at the company, at least six of those employees were swiftly fired by Giove after a team meeting in New York.
Mr. Lubinsky, the spokesman, said Agriprocessors was not aware of under-age workers in its plant and had moved swiftly to fire four workers under 18 who were discovered by managers.
