Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labor turmoil that has crippled the country for eight months and brought it perilously close to a Soviet invasion. This time the four-star general put teeth into his appeal by demanding a legislated, two-month ban against all strikes. Otherwise, Jaruzelski warned, he would be obliged to resign...
...July. Sacks will resign after ten years as dean of the Law School. He is quitting to give another person an opportunity to inject new ideas into the school. He will return after a year-long sabbatical to teach again at the Law School. but when he returns, things will be different--for the school and especially for Sacks...
...without properly consulting other Cabinet members, had given the French tacit approval to sell 600,000 tons of wheat to the Soviets. The White House attempted to play down the incident in the hope that it would blow over, but talk continued to float around Washington that Haig might resign, and that the White House was already looking for a successor...
Citing a lack of time, Dr. Howard S. Frazier, master of Currier House, told residents of the House this week that he would resign as master effective at the end of the spring term. Frazier, who is in his second year as master, is also a professor of Medicine at the Medical School and director of the Center for the Analyses of Health Practices. "I cannot, in the time available, do the job as I would like, or as all of you deserve," Frazier wrote in a letter to residents announcing his plans...
Henry Kissinger raised the threat of resignation to real art. In 1971, when a leak of secret transcripts disclosed the White House "tilt" toward Pakistan (in its war with India over independence for Bangladesh), Kissinger was mortified. He never intended to resign, but he sent the signals out through his elaborate network of foreign policy friends. A resounding vote of confidence came quietly back. It shored him up spiritually and also within Nixon's White House...