Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are 3,000 field officers and aides serving in the Foreign Service, and around 100 are weeded out every year. Two hundred more resign annually. The process follows a fundamental Government pattern. Every man is rated at least once a year by his superior, who then passes his reports on to a departmental reviewing officer, who in turn presents his recommendations to the reviewing boards. While no one in the department argues that incompetents should not be winnowed out, the feeling is that the rating system has deteriorated into an endless round of pettifoggeries and petty jealousies, where...
...prickly talks on the Sino-Soviet border dispute. China's permanent U.N. representative will be courtly Ambassador Huang Hua, the only member of the delegation with prior professional service in North America; since April he has been China's ambassador to Canada, a post that he will resign when he takes up his duties in New York. In all, five of Peking's delegates have held posts outside China (in Moscow, London, Cairo, New Delhi and Ghana). Some are veterans of the swings that Chou frequently made through the Third World. The only woman delegate, Wang...
...believe that it should find in large part for the professors--it is obvious that the Design School cannot return to its former stature if the sour taste of the past five years lingers in any form, from either side. For the good of the School, Kilbridge should resign immediately as dean and return, if he is willing, to his teaching post at the Business School. Isaacs and Vigier should eschew all administrative duties at the Design School and return to teaching and scholarship...
...American right thereupon proclaimed that at last they had proof that Acheson was the Communist dupe they had said he was. Under attack as never before, Acheson offered to resign, but Truman, who vastly admired him, pluckily backed him up. "I suppose an element of pride entered into this," Acheson later explained. "I knew this question was going to be asked. And I knew the press was going to believe I'd run. And I just said, 'I'm not going to run. I'm going to let you have it right...
...defense-minded country is living beyond its means. Preparing the 1972 budget, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir demanded a $476 million cut from this year's $3.1 billion figure. He called for a 16% reduction in defense spending, which accounts for 40% of the budget, and threatened to resign unless the cut is carried...