1.   It was spurred by the Watergate scandal when Richard Nixon ordered the dismissal of Archibald Cox, a special prosecutor who lacked any statutory protection.

2.   The person who ordered the dismissals was Jim Wiatt, who in August became president and co-chief executive of William Morris after leaving as co-chairman at ICM.

3.   Welch ordered the dismissal of Russell, who later sued GE, accusing it of wrongful discharge.

4.   Earlier this month, Yeltsin ordered the dismissal of personal security guards from a dozen top government officials, including First Deputy Prime Ministers Boris Nemtsov and Anatoly Chubais.

5.   Early this month he ordered the dismissal of the Senate parliamentarian, who interprets rules and precedents, in a dispute over an impending ruling on budget legislation.

6.   Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday ordered the dismissal of Cabinet ministers from the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party.

7.   Lukashenko had his guards remove Lt. Gen. Leonid Maltsev from the podium during an incoherent speech at the Minsk Medical Institute and ordered his dismissal, Interfax said.

8.   THAI president Thamnoon Wanglee has been accused by the association of treating Surasit unfairly because the dismissal was ordered without any investigation.

9.   The newspaper said the court ordered the dismissal from the armed forces and imprisonment of four colonels.

10.   He said only the prime minister had the right to order his dismissal.