Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disservice to the university and to those who must cope with its problems." So far, at least, there was little evidence that Kerr's dismissal would have much, if any, immediate effect on the quality of Cal's teaching. None of the protesting professors had offered to resign. So long as there was no mass exodus, it seemed unlikely that many potential faculty recruits would be dissuaded from heading west to join the nation's most prestigious state university...
...with a proposal to combine in a single Department of Business and Labor the interrelated and often overlapping functions of the less than potent Commerce and Labor Departments. Though the plan had enthusiastic backing from both Commerce Secretary John Connor (who coincidentally announced last week that he wants to resign anyway, some time in the next couple of months) and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz (who has also told the President that he would like a job change), its reception on Capitol Hill was lukewarm...
...made with France covered the sending of troops for his own personal protection. At 2 a.m., after a French functionary had relayed the call to Charles de Gaulle, back came the answer: Non! But Eyadéma at least spared Grunitzky's life, permitting him to resign the presidency...
...Even in Viet Nam they've declared a truce for Christmas." In Athens' complex politics, the reason for the timing was far from clear. But some saw the fine hand of wily old ex-Premier George Papandreou, who for months has been demanding that the government resign and call new elections. It was Papandreou whom Stephanopoulos ultimately succeeded in 1965, after discovery of an abortive plot to infiltrate the military with leftists. Kanellopoulos supposedly agreed to press for an amnesty for the accused plotters (among them, Papandreou's son); in return, the popular, antimonarchist Papandreou would consent...
...transcendental presence implies to Dewart that God is to be envisioned as a reality found in and through nature, as the shaping force of history. And in so far as the word "God" has become a symbol of an outdated supernatural idol, Dewart proposes that the church might well resign itself to silence as to the name of the reality-beyond-being it serves and preaches...