Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control over religious issues that inhibit the behavior of the largely secular nation, such as halting public transportation and the national airline on the Sabbath. Without the religious parties to form a Parliamentary majority, pre-unity governments were helpless: in 1976 the Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had to resign in the aftermath of a tiff with Orthodox leaders about breaking the Sabbath...
...delegates approve the motion, Malone says he is confident "Andrew [Natsios] would respond to the rank and file" and resign...
...Republican political consultant Jack Flannery disagreed. "The resolution is all smoke and fury." The consultant said only the committee can remove Natsios. Flannery said that Natsios will not resign even if the motion passes...
...Then Lieutenant Geltz came forward. Although not conclusive, his pictures did raise questions. But instead of thanking him for his diligence, the navy angrily ordered him to turn over his pictures; he refused, wanting assurances that they would not be destroyed. Geltz was subsequently arrested, reprimanded, and forced to resign from the Navy (without a pension...
When the board voted to make the cut anyway, many Federal Reserve staffers thought that Volcker might resign. But Newcomer Angell went to the chairman's office a few hours later and suggested a compromise. By the end of the day, the board assembled again at its dark mahogany table and suspended the rate cut so that Volcker could have more time to confer with foreign officials. Less than two weeks later, after West Germany and other countries had reduced their interest charges, the board unanimously voted to lower the discount rate...