BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward has come under mounting pressure over the spill, caused after a drilling rig BP was leasing, the Deepwater Horizon, caught fire and sank last month.
Having a boss threaten to fire you is motivation - you'll likely work harder to complete a project with that kind of pressure.
如果你老板给你加压，要是你做不完一个项目，就炒你鱿鱼，这是一种动机——你一定会更加努力去做。
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But at least one death was real: cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko died in a pressure chamber fire during ground training less than a month before Gagarin's flight.