Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a large and responsible affair as perestroika, you have let the steering wheel slip from your hands." Admiral Gennadi Khvatov, commander of the Pacific fleet, intoned the old slogan, "The fatherland is in danger." Gorbachev, tired of the harangues, stormed to the rostrum and announced he would resign...
...announced his decision to resign last June, will be suceeded by Neil L. Rudenstine, who is currently executive vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York...
...smacked the insurance industry by temporarily blocking a 26% increase in auto premiums and vowing to clamp down on other "outrageous" rates. Accusing the insurance regulatory board of being too cozy with the firms it is supposed to oversee, she threatened a takeover if two members did not resign. One agreed to step down...
...come under increasing fire in recent years. At Princeton, a lawsuit forced the remaining all-male eating clubs to admit women. Three U.S. Senators who are alumni of the Yale Skull and Bones club have called for co-education at that club. Presidential candidates and federal judicial nominees routinely resign from all-male clubs...
...Kelley moved over to the Washington Post as an editorial-page researcher; two years later, she was asked to resign for making notes unrelated to her job. One day in 1973 she turned up at Washingtonian magazine with an unpublished book written by the novelist Barbara Howar. Kitty claimed that she had found the manuscript in the drawer of a table sold at Howar's yard sale and wanted the Washingtonian to print excerpts. When Howar heard about it, she raised a mighty fuss; only one copy of the manuscript existed, she said, and this she kept on the third...