Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down as a group, and David offered to resign, and we all decided that was the best thing," Silk said...
...this age of scandal, government officials more often quit in shame than resign over principle. So Washington took notice last week when Marshall Harris, a 32-year-old desk officer at the State Department, publicly left his post after reaching "level-10 frustration" at the Clinton Administration's erratic Bosnia policy. "I thought about resigning last month when Secretary Christopher said the U.S. was doing all it could," he says. "But the real kicker came when I found out we were putting heavy pressure on the Muslims to come to an agreement in Geneva, and using the threat of withholding...
...move into the "fast" lane to add a few years to your life, but then you'd be stuck behind legions of losers trying to turn left. Somehow, those canny Cambridge traffic controllers never figured that turn arrows at intersections could save people a lot of aggravation. So you resign yourself to a slightly shorter ride in a continuous cloud of instant smog...
...sitting and reflect Foster's sense that, as a top White House official paraphrased the note, "Washington is an unhappy place." An aide who read a transcript said, "If you didn't know what Vince had done, you would have thought at worst that he was going to resign...
...tortuous, scandal-plagued tenure of William Sessions with two short phone calls: the first to tell Sessions he was dismissed, the second to add that it was effective immediately. Appointed to a 10-year term in 1987 by Ronald Reagan, Sessions had been under pressure to resign since January, when the Bush Administration's Justice Department released a report accusing him of a range of ethical violations, including misuse of bureau planes and limousines. But Sessions refused to step down. "It was not hard," Clinton said later of the firing...