Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generate widespread popular support, there is some doubt as to whether the party can translate that support into votes. The irregularities of Indian politics, a country whose corrupt electoral system makes the late Richard J. Daley's machine pale by comparison, have led many of the opposition leaders to resign themselves to an inevitable Congress victory...
...executive. The family finances are a shambles. Neighborhood stores have stopped giving credit where credit is overdue. What stern measures can the family bring itself to take in the face of this crisis? Simple. Dad will stop eating steak, Daughter will give up her skiing lessons, and Mom will resign from the Book-of-the-Month Club...
More Zest. By coincidence, the Church Times, semiofficial voice of the Church of England, last week underscored the remaining gap over the papacy. It ran an editorial urging the 79-year-old Pope Paul to resign and "make the way clear for a younger man with more zest." Anglican reaction to the Venice statement, however, was modestly hopeful, and Pope Paul told an audience, "We are all potentially brothers...
...what about Reading Period? If you resign yourself to taking exams after the festive season, three weeks of concentrated studying is not a bad deal. But come on. How many of you had no classes to attend, no papers to write, and no sections to drag youselves to this month? Oh, and for all of you Chem 10 students, isn't it nice to have problem sets all the way up to the first day of finals? Most people probably have less than a week of reading period, and even if they do have more, who needs it? One solid...
...making heroes out of deserters. " So says Lieut. Commander Michael Christian, a Norfolk-based former Viet Nam prisoner of war, who vows that he is ready to resign from the Navy in protest. "The price of honor seems pretty cheap this year." Air Force Colonel George Day, another former Viet Nam P.O. W. now stationed in Florida, is ready to pack up his war medals, including the Medal of Honor, and ship them all back to Washington...