Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whatever else you might say about Providence, it doesn't let felons hold office. The city council indicated just minutes after Cianci's sentencing that it would seek to boot him. Cianci announced a few minutes later that he would resign. Once he did, every festering sore in Providence City Hall opened...
...Commissioner Sanford H. Gorodetsky erupted Sandy, ironically, was both the city's Top Cop and major target in a probe by the police over corruption in City Hall Sandy doesn't like the Police Chief. Anthony J. Mancuso and so he fired him minutes after Cianci said he would resign...
...these connections by performing small favors, like getting the job for Ursula Meese or helping Nancy Thurmond, the wife of Senator Strom Thurmond, Republican of South Carolina, organize charity balls. (He once put Mrs. Thurmond on his payroll, but criticism of the potential conflict of interest caused her to resign.) Gray says he never asks for favors in return. "There was a time when booze, blonds and bribes were the persuaders," he explains. "But today's lobbyist has to be a straight shooter." Contends Staffer Frank Mankiewicz, who until last year ran National Public Radio...
...business trips, shared limousines and spent late nights working together. The two strongly denied the charges of a romance, and Cunningham today insists that she was the victim of office gossips who envied her position. Bowing to pressure inside and outside the company, Bendix officials forced Cunningham to resign in October 1980. Less than two years later, she and Agee were married...
...July 23 elections. But the big surprise was that Sharon got 42% of the delegates' votes to Shamir's 56%. Most political observers had expected Sharon to win a mere 10% to 15%. It was a remarkable comeback for a man who was forced to resign as Defense Minister last year after the government-appointed Kahan commission concluded that he had made "a grave mistake when he ignored the danger of acts of revenge and bloodshed" by Lebanese Phalangists against Arab civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps outside Beirut in September 1982. Might Sharon...