Word: resignations
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Abortion is hardly the only divisive issue. Under Vatican pressure, California's Father Terrance Sweeney has been forced to resign from the Jesuits because he insisted on issuing the results of a survey he had made of U.S. bishops (24% of respondents favored optional celibacy for priests, 28% approved of women deacons). During the past few years there have been rancorous disputes between Rome and America over textbooks used in parishes on doctrine and on sex and several private struggles over appointments of theology teachers...
McLaughlin's relations with the faculty represented a large conflict in his administration. Roos said that "a number of people felt that there was a very serious problem which McLaughlin seemed not to understand. Most of the faculty would agree with his decision to resign without any negative implication towards...
...force the trustees out, said Michael Engle, president of the Westfield chapter of the Massachusetts State College Association, although the "no confidence" vote, adopted by the 90 professors who attended the Tuesday afternoon meeting, urged trustees Chairman Jane Berry, past chairman Charles Hapcook and trustee Sophie Chmura to resign. The union has 160 members...
Connarton, who has worked in the city clerk's office for 13 years, has been filling in for the current city clerk, Paul Healy, who recently announced that he would resign on October...
...land where harmony is prized, especially in politics, Masayuki Fujio's stance was uncharacteristically defiant. "If I resign," said Japan's Education Minister, "it would mean going back on my statements." Since Fujio would not resign, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone fired him. It was the first time in 34 years that a Japanese Cabinet member had been dismissed...