Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Corcoran, who said in January he would resign when the Council agreed on a successor, refused to keep his pledge. Instead he refused to state any intentions connected with his job until the Council took "final action" on the manager question. This final action appears now to refer to Corcoran's dismissal, which he will probably contest...
...story revolves around the family, the drabness of their bourgeois lives, their struggles to make a respectable living, whether as doctor, hairdresser, or clerk. But it is essentially a love story. It celebrates the ever-deepening love of two old people, who have shared sorrow and happiness, and now resign themselves to old age and death, in a manner so dignified that it bespeaks a stoic philosophy, a metaphysical experience of life...
...January, Corcoran said he would resign as soon as the Council agreed upon his successor. But recent speculation around City Hall suggests that Corcoran is prepared to fight to prevent his ouster...
...that an "outsider" was moving into one of the paper's choicest overseas jobs. "It is an unusual situation," conceded Foreign Editor James Greenfield, while denying rumors that the appointment had caused a minirevolt. A few local employees of the bureau consulted their union about whether they could resign as a group without violating their contract. (They could not.) Correspondent John Hess-the chap who had locked the door-asked for and received a transfer back to New York. Was Lewis concerned about the rumblings? Said she: "I'm not worried...
...Carroll received a call from Bok's secretary informing him that the President wanted him to make an appointment. On the eighteenth Bok and Carroll met. Bok told the director that he had decided to make a change in administration at the Press and asked for Carroll's resignation. Carroll refused to resign, seeing no point in pretense. Bok then gave Carroll his dismissal, effective immediately...