Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview with The Crimson after he announced his intention to resign, Reich said he would move back to Cambridge this month to spend more time with his wife and two sons...
...bout with pneumonia and may be back at the Kremlin full-time within four weeks. But by the time that happens, Yeltsin may have, politically, a terminal case of the Lebeds. Last week, the former security chief and presidential candidate called Yeltsin an "old, sick man" who should resign for the good of Russia. Sunday, Lebed was talking about new elections that would take place, presumably, well before Yeltsin's term ends in 2000. "I want to become president and I will," Lebed said. "I'm ready for the election." Lebed has his own political party and boasted Sunday that...
...visits was Bruce Lindsey's characterization of them as social calls. According to a Times story by Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton, Lindsey withheld information about the Riady meetings despite the recommendations of White House lawyers Jane Sherburne and Mark Fabiani. A Times editorial then called on Lindsey to resign. But while Sherburne was quoted in Gerth and Labaton's story, Fabiani has never confirmed the account. Sources close to Sherburne say that she never felt she had been overruled or lied to by Lindsey and that the Times torqued up a conflict...
...this year is that its own internal problems have prevented it from getting things done. After all, its legislation received about as much coverage as did the heated debates between Hyman and Rudd Coffey. These former presidential opponents could not put personal interests aside, and Coffey had to finally resign...
After announcing his decision last week to resign as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, David Kessler remarked, "We took on some of the most difficult regulatory challenges, and I think we've made some progress." Not even the numerous--and vociferous--critics of Kessler's tumultuous six years at the FDA would argue with the first part of that statement. Kessler, 45, was a rarity among Washington bureaucrats: a political appointee willing to embrace controversy and weather the consequences...