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...been on the verge of resigning anyway, and that Arroyo had simply been trying to pre-empt their moves and show that she's still in charge. "The President can be part of the solution to this crisis by making the supreme sacrifice for God and country to voluntarily relinquish her office," said Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima. "The longer the President stays in office under a cloud of doubt and mistrust ... the greater the damage [to] the economy and the more vulnerable the fragile political situation becomes." (Three additional Cabinet members resigned later that...
...there was a nuclear arms race, there were visionary plans afoot to end it. In 1946, while the U.S. still had a monopoly on the revolutionary new weapons, Washington proposed creating an international agency that would take control of all nuclear weapons and material, after which the U.S. would relinquish its arsenal. "We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead," declared former Wall Street Financier Bernard Baruch in presenting the plan to the fledgling United Nations. Moscow's Ambassador, a youthful Andrei Gromyko, put forth a Soviet counterproposal: a ban on the construction of atomic...
...Comptroller, who heads the General Accounting Office, must calculate and order the necessary cuts under a specified formula. The twelve Congressmen, all of whom voted against the bill, argued that this gave to the Comptroller broad powers of the purse that the Constitution does not permit Congress to relinquish...
...brink of another deadly food shortage. Food aid has propped up the North since the mid-1990s, when famine killed between 1 million and 3 million people. But major contributors, including the U.S. and Japan, are reluctant to keep feeding North Korea while Kim refuses to relinquish his nuclear arsenal. The WFP is trying to provide for 6.5 million people in the country, says Richard Ragan, head of the WFP's relief operation in North Korea. But donations from governments have withered by more than half since 2002, and the agency will be forced to halt food supplies to nearly...
Gordon’s accomplishments as a teacher in Social Studies are well-known, and his newly acquired tenure, most assuredly signifying his accomplishments as a professor, should not force him to relinquish his teaching post. On the contrary, letting senior faculty teach within various departments is not only beneficial for the professors who want to teach to their desires, but also for the students who are not limited to the teaching staff of only one department...