Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sidewalk opposite No. 10 Downing Street, some of them crying: "Get out, you silly nits." In most un-British fashion, eggs were hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan. A poll published by the Daily Mail reported that 54% of British voters thought that Wilson should resign, and that 56% believed that devaluation was the result of Labor's mismanagement. In the only chance that Britons had to express their judgment with ballots, the by-election voters of West Derbyshire more than doubled the Tory majority and dropped the Laborite candidate into third place behind the Liberal Party...
...inked offices closed, personnel trimmed, including a cut in the headquarters office force from 2,000 to 200. Weinstock set up new accounting procedures to monitor G.E.C.'s progress, and executives who did not measure up to his operating standards were promptly fired or allowed to resign. In five years, G.E.C.'s earnings quadrupled to $25.4 million, after taxes, on sales of $458.5 million; the company became Britain's third largest electric-equipment manufacturer and one of the country's most profitable operations. This year, with sales of consumer goods off in a sluggish economy, G.E.C...
...Nasser had grown tired of propping up the unpopular Sallal, whose refusal to make peace with the Yemeni Royalists had cost him the support of even his own followers. Even so, Sallal was unprepared for the reception he got. In a brief and chilly meeting, Nasser advised him to resign and go into exile...
...version Nofziger had passed along privately to newsmen was in conflict with some details of the Pearson column but supported the essential element that two staff members suspected of homosexuality had been forced to resign. When challenged at the press conference about Nofziger's statements, Reagan said: "Nothing like that ever happened." Nofziger was standing near by, and Reagan asked: "Want to confirm it, Lynn?" "Confirmed," he replied...
...June, when West Berlin police fired on student demonstrators, killing one of them. Albertz backed up his police, but later had to back down when the city's parliament decided that the police had, in fact, used too much muscle. After that, internal party squabbles forced Albertz to resign. Last week, by a vote of 81 to 38, the West Berlin parliament gave the problem-packed mayoral post to energetic Klaus...