Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hyundai conglomerate (estimated 1987 revenues: $23 billion). Trouble started in early May, when a labor leader at the Hyundai Construction Co. was kidnaped in Seoul. Two company executives were eventually arrested and charged with paying thugs $27,000 to kidnap the man to force him to resign from the company. In the meantime, 3,500 workers, demanding 50% pay hikes, had walked out at two machine-tool factories owned by Hyundai Precision and Industry Co. On May 27, strikers at one of the plants seized a five-story office building and took Hyundai Precision Chairman Chong Mong...
Similarly, students, alumni and union workers staged a protest this week at the Ropes and Gray law offices of Harvard Overseer Thomas O'Donnell, armed with a cellular telephone and a trio of designated spokesmen. They insisted that he resign from either his University post or hispartnership in the law firm...
After Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 announced in April that he would resign from the deanship after next year, his colleagues at the Law School and around the nation praised him for his handling of a faculty plagued by deep ideological differences...
...protesters called on O'Donnell to make a public statement in favor of divestment or resign from the Board of Overseers, and they also requested that he meet with all of them. O'Donnell did not accede to the demands and the protesters were arrested by Boston police for trespassing at 7:45 p.m., more than nine hours after the protest had begun...
Martin stayed off the field during Monday night's 3-2 loss to Boston under threat of instant ejection. He had vowed to be his usual self yesterday, and suggested he would file a lawsuit and claimed he might resign...