Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began to wonder if Okada could turn the store's fortunes around. The final blow came three weeks ago when experts charged that Persian treasures shown last month at the main Mitsukoshi store in Tokyo featured costly fakes. When Okada refused to accept responsibility for the hoax and resign, the store's 16 other directors convened at Mitsui's urging and voted to fire him, relegating him to the post of "non-regular adviser...
...care for working mothers. He promised "a government and statehouse you can be proud of," a barely veiled reference to scandals that have tainted King's administration. King's secretary of transportation was imprisoned after being convicted of bribery, and several other key aides were forced to resign under clouds...
...agree to a call for new elections and to accept his minority leadership in the interim. Kohl lost no time rejecting what he pointedly called the Chancellor's "intrigue." Instead, the C.D.U. leader bluntly called on Schmidt to step aside. Said he: "It is your patriotic duty to resign. Our people need a new start and we are ready to provide it." Added a member of the Christian Social Union: "We are not going to play the Chancellor's game...
...membership of nearly 1,000 included powerful Italian politicians, military men and police. The fact that Gelli was apparently using the lodge to achieve political power in Italy unleashed such a furor that high military and security officials whose names were found on the rolls were forced to resign; so was Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani, though he was not a P2 member. Gelli's name was also linked to the collapse of Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, whose president, Roberto Calvi, was not only a member of P2, but was believed to be the lodge's paymaser, allegedly...
...autocratic leader of the Columbia Broadcasting System for more than half a century, a major figure in its growth from a fledgling business into a billion-dollar industry. Last week William S. Paley, who will be 81 in two weeks, announced that effective next April 20, he will resign after 37 years as chairman of CBS Inc. Paley told TIME Correspondent Janice Simpson, "I've been thinking about it for a long time, but it came to a point in my mind now, and so I decided to announce...