Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British Prime Minister James Callaghan narrowly averted a defeat in Commons that would have forced him to resign and call new elections. Just minutes before facing a no-confidence vote demanded by Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher (TIME, March 28), Callaghan concluded a deal with the Liberal Party's David Steel, thus assuring the Labor government's survival; this actually left the P.M. in a stronger parliamentary position than he has enjoyed for months. The price that Steel extracted was a Liberal voice in the government's legislative program in order to push such Liberal pet policies...
...withdrawn, stoically advising her ministers that if she had lost, she had lost. Before dawn the next morning she asked the Acting President to lift the state of emergency. Two hours later she summoned her ministers, many of whom had also been defeated, and told them she would resign...
...Governor Castro's election campaign. While serving as an Arizona state highway commissioner in 1942, he was arrested for ordering a state-owned truck engine installed in one of his own vehicles. He was subsequently acquitted. By recalling the incident in a newspaper article, Bolles forced Marley to resign from a coveted seat on the state racing commission. For this reason, Adamson was told by the land developer, Marley wanted Bolles killed. So far, Marley, who divides his time between homes in Arizona and Mexico, has not been arrested because of lack of evidence. The state is hoping that...
...Faculty fails to make any changes in the CRR's charter by this June, the four freshmen nominated last week should resign. If, after they are formally appointed, any student comes before the CRR for discipline, the student members should resign immediately. Above all, the CRR's newest members should not forget their mandate to effect change in the committee's composition and procedures...
...someone who wants me home at 6 o'clock," says Stahl. "Aaron knows all about the news business. He told me that the most romantic thing I said to him in the first year after we met [in 1973] was do you really think Nixon is going to resign...