Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HANOVER, N.H.--Dartmouth College President John G. Kemeny announced Monday that he will resign August 1, 1981, or earlier if a successor is found before that date...
Kemeny said his decision to resign was based on "a realistic evaluation" of what further he could expect to accomplish as president. He said the "wear and tear of the job" had taken its toll on his energy...
Students need not throw up their hands and resign themselves to seats in the back of the lecture hall. In order to improve teaching at Harvard, a conscientious effort must be made at all levels of the educational bureaucracy, from tenure appointments to the hiring and training of section leaders. Bok's appeal is welcomed, for improvements can be made; but to achieve them, students must change roles from spectators to actors in order to overcome the inertia of a self-satisfied institution...
Wearing a blue suit and a basset-hound expression, the burly man sat calmly last week in the witness chair of Atlanta's federal district court, facing the jammed courtroom. "My name is Thomas Bertram Lance," he boomed out. Thus, 2½ years after he was forced to resign as Jimmy Carter's Budget Director, eleven months after he was indicted for bank fraud and three months after his trial began, Bert Lance finally got his day in court...
...They believe that the A.P.A. membership may have swung against ERA, not just the boycott. Says Harvard Psychiatrist Nanette Gartrell: "I'm afraid if there were a vote now on whether ERA should be supported, it would lose." Feminists are now contemplating a movement to encourage psychiatrists to resign from the association over the issue. If that issue is pressed at next year's convention, it will have to happen in a non-ERA state. The 1981 A.P.A. meeting will be held in New Orleans...