Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Margaret Thatcher stumbled -- and then was pushed from power by her own ruling Conservative Party leadership last week. What had still seemed a distant possibility suddenly telescoped into a historic event that caught even Thatcher by surprise. In telling her stunned Cabinet colleagues Thursday morning of her decision to resign as Prime Minister, Thatcher said with a touch of bitterness, "It is rather a funny old world that it has to come to this, when I had won three elections for the Conservative Party and still have the majority of the party's support...
...change would simply heighten the problems by causing postal workers--suddenly faced with loss of their seniority and benefits--to resign en masse, Albanese said. In addition, the Cambridge post master would have to okay all decisions with the Boston office, adding to an already bulky bureaucracy, he said...
...spasm of communal violence has almost brought down the 11-month-old government of Prime Minister V.P. Singh, who offered to resign for the second time in three months. It was the most serious challenge yet to Singh, who is struggling to hold his party together, even as the rise of Hindu nationalism threatens to undermine the secular foundations of the world's most populous democracy. Said S.R. Bommai, president of the Prime Minister's Janata Dal party: "The country is at a crossroads. We have to choose between secularism and religious fundamentalism, between democracy and mobocracy, between unity...
Oliver said that the council's finance committee was not his primary interest. "I was really interested in the [structuring] committee. If I couldn't be on the [structuring] committee, I would resign again," he added...
...join the professional ranks must not only match the men hour for hour but also be prepared to do continuous battle with skeptical views of their aspirations to be more than lovely but low-level "office flowers." Some companies endorse traditional expectations that women will resign when they get married. Toyota Motor Corp., for instance, gives women who do so a special "farewell money gift" of up to three months' salary. And Japanese companies are just awakening to the concept of sexual harassment. Many women complain that their managers attribute successful business deals by women to their feminine wiles rather...