Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president and business manager of the Harvard-Radcliffe Yearbook were forced to resign this year because of "spending abuses," according to a Crimson report. And the general manager of the Krokodiloes, an a capella singing group, was forced to resign after allegedly using $3,000 of the group's funds for personal expenses...
...their relationship decayed. The department demanded that Katona turn in an old Bucyrus police chief's badge that his father had bought for him at a gun show. The department claimed it had been stolen long ago from another collector. When Katona refused, he was forced to resign. Meanwhile, Crawford County sheriff Ronny Shawber had persuaded almost all the county's police chiefs to agree to a moratorium on authorizing machine-gun purchases. Beran agreed. In August 1989 he wrote to Katona: "Dear Louis, I'm sorry, but I am not signing these forms any longer." Over the next...
...bring a bunch of swimming suits. One is okay, but you'll find that Cambridge is not exactly Tahiti. Resign yourself to the fact that you will never be as tan as your best friend who attends that prestigious university on the West Coast. Ditto for the sunblock and the beach umbrella...
Legendary AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, whom rivals had pressured for weeks to resign, said he would leave the 13.3-million-member labor federation Aug. 1 -- with a recommendation that his protege, executive secretary Thomas Donahue, succeed him. But powerful dissidents in the flagging organization are not backing his choice. "Handovers like that are dinosaurs," saysTIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "Nobody in the labor movement is in the mood to sleep through this. They want a generational shift." The battle parallels the recent upheaval in the Teamsters union, in which one-time radicals rolled over an outgoing leader...
...forever. Dole may resign as Senate chief late this year if the right moment comes along, a top Dole adviser says. At present Dole and his aides are considering the possibility of his stepping aside when-and if-he can find the lone vote to pass the balanced-budget amendment that failed in February. "If you go out," says the Dole adviser, "you want to go out on a high note...