Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Keverian's last effort to muscle a proposal through the House proved fruitless. In December, Keverian asked several of his committee chairs to resign if they could not support his November tax plant. But the speaker backed away from the threat when it became apparent that he did not have the votes to pass the bill anyway...
...woes, a version that doesn't play well with Hollywood insiders. "Dino was clearly, unequivocably, unquestionably responsible for what happened to this company," says Stephen Greenwald, DEG's former chairman. "His attempts to evade that responsibility are reprehensible and ludicrous." Greenwald says that De Laurentiis refused to resign unless he received a package of deals worth $110 million. He soon settled...
...might have a double meaning. But I think as far as his goal was concerned, it was always one of loyalty to the office, loyalty to me, and I think it was almost as hard on him as on me when he came to the conclusion that I should resign. That's my view about...
...contact with the Stasi while defending dissidents. The Stasi stain could spread to other parties, including the SPD. There are charges that as many as 40 of the 400 new deputies may have been in the service of the secret police. If any of these men are forced to resign as a result of their past activities, warns Manfred Stolpe, a top East German churchman, "this would be a terrible blow for our young democracy...
Most Central Committee members over the age of 60, or about half the total of 174, have offered to resign in anticipation of an extraordinary party congress scheduled for next month that will select a new President. Both Batmonh and Prime Minister Dumaagiyn Sodnom, 56, have reportedly volunteered to quit their government posts when the People's Great Hural, Mongolia's parliament, next convenes. The government has also agreed to include the opposition in a commission that is to draft a new constitution...