Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Central Intelligence Agency. Aides say Bush trusts her judgment completely. But her overprotectiveness and flashes of anger in public toward other staff members alienated Bush's top aides even before he became Vice President. Baker, who is Bush's close friend, in 1980 threatened to resign as campaign manager unless Bush dumped Fitzgerald. Baker felt that she had more influence over the candidate than he did. After serious reflection, Bush did drop her temporarily, but then paid her out of his own pocket for a while...
...Freedom is not the chief and continual object of their desires, it is equality for which [Americans] feel an eternal love, they rush on freedom with quick and sudden impulses, but if they miss their mark, they resign themselves to their disappointment; but nothing will satisfy them without equality, and they would rather die than lose it." Tocqueville, Democracy in America...
...figure is 7.3%, the highest since 1956. After the announcement last week that the unemployment rate for Britain and Northern Ireland had reached 12.7%-which meant a record 3 million out of work-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was greeted in the House of Commons with opposition cries of "Resign! Resign...
Chief among the complaints are Agee's magisterial management style. He refused to make room on the Bendix board of directors for the man who preceded him as chairman, W. Michael Blumenthal, after Blumenthal resigned in 1979 as Carter's Treasury Secretary. Then when Blumenthal was named vice chairman of Burroughs Corp., another Detroit area company (1981 sales: $3.4 billion), Agee reportedly tried to get himself the job as head of the computer manufacturer. Agee also considered buying Burroughs outright. Along the way through those maneuvers, he forced three Bendix board members to resign because of their ties...
Fogg Museum Director Seymour Slive. who last spring announce his decision to resign fail said the cancellation is extremely painful...