Word: resignation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been tempered with a cool willingness to compromise. The President has made conciliatory gestures to aristocrats who opposed his election. He has massaged the egos of political opponents who supported his ouster. He has acceded to the demands of church superiors who successfully pressured him to resign his priesthood in November. He has renewed his promise to step down at the end of his term in February 1996, even though he lost three years of his five-year tenure in exile. As he goes about the business of remaking the government, Aristide has never stopped preaching the gospel of reconciliation...
While sympathetic to Bonfili's frustration, other delegates questioned Bonfili's decision to resign at this point in time...
...about at least two scenarios. The first was the simplest. Within the coming week, the budget bill, which has passed the Chamber of Deputies, goes before the Senate, where the Berlusconi government lacks a majority. If the bill is defeated, the Prime Minister may carry out his threat to resign and force new elections. If it passes, coalition partner Umberto Bossi, head of the Northern League, may resign or switch allegiance to protest against Berlusconi's leadership...
...where have they led us, yesterday's leaders of tomorrow? In the summer of 1974, shortly before Richard Nixon became the first President ever to resign, TIME, perceiving a crisis of leadership in America, presented its "Faces for the Future," 200 men and women, age 45 and under, who could "assume leadership roles in the right circumstances -- and given the right spirit of the country." Five years later, TIME chose a new portfolio of "faces for the future" -- 50 more people in the same age category whom the editors identified as emerging leaders. Without seeming immodest, we may observe that...
Clinton Administration officials today confirmed recent rumors that Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, 73, will resign early next year, leaving the Clinton Administration without one of its most experienced and highly-regarded policy makers. Bentsen, however, took a page from the Mark Twain playbook, telling reporters that reports of his departure were "premature." Leading the pack of talked-about replacements: Robert Rubin, head of Clinton's National Economic Council and the former co-chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says Bentsen has decided to quit "for a lot of reasons. First, he's getting on. The timing...