The crisis culminated, when the legislature, which was controlled by the Roumeliotes and the Hydriots, overturned the executive, and fired its president, Petros Mavromichalis.

Amtrak's board fired the company's president on Wednesday morning, widening a divide between the Bush administration and Congress over the future of the railroad.

Shortly before Christmas, that clash resulted in an unusual cabinet order to fire the wheat board's president, Adrian Measner.

McAfee, the maker of antivirus software, fired its president, Kevin Weiss, and said its chief executive, George Samenuk, had retired.

On Monday, it fired its president, David Glenn, after saying he failed to cooperate with part of the company's investigation of its accounting problem.

In addition, EMI (which fired its president and went through a major corporate restructuring that summer) seemed to have lost interest in promoting the band.

In August 2005, the school's Board of Trustees fired the school's president, Barbara Hatton.

In June, after having to restate three years of results, Freddie Mac fired its president; two other top executives left soon after.

Freddie Mac, the big buyer of mortgage loans, fired its president yesterday, contending that he failed to cooperate with an internal investigation into its accounting practices.

Host America, an institutional caterer in Hamden, Conn., fired its president and chief executive, Geoffrey W. Ramsey, last week.