Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raids have inspired such colorful defensive tactics as the Pac-Man counterattack and the poison pill. Now the managers at Borden, the food and consumer-products giant, have created a novel repellent they call a "people pill." Borden said last week that its top 25 officers have agreed to resign en masse during any takeover attempt if they believe stockholders are getting less than a fair price or if any executives are fired or demoted...
Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry should resign...
Barry lacks credibility in Washington. Even among the Black community from which he draws most of his support, Barry seems to be losing many voters. A recent poll of voters found that 46 percent thought Barry should resign, and only 31 percent thought he is not involved with illegal drugs...
...make amends, Takeshita responded last week with a Cabinet shuffle, ousting 15 of his 20 Ministers. But his new Justice Minister, Takashi Hasegawa, was forced to resign only three days later after it was disclosed that one of his political support groups had accepted legal-but-compromising cash contributions of $3,800 a month from the company behind the stock episode...
...that for the arms process to be effective, both sides must make concessions. He is aware of the need to reduce asymmetries, but emphasized that both sides must take steps to ameliorate them. I can't imagine he took such vigorous exception to the Gorbachev proposal that he would resign over that...