Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urging of his Cabinet members, Begin agreed to meet on Monday morning with Likud leaders to discuss the political situation and his next step. If he resolved to carry out his announcement, Begin would then go to President Chaim Herzog and formally submit his resignation. His entire Cabinet would automatically resign with him. Herzog would then consult with the nation's political leaders before deciding on whom to ask to form the next government. Because Begin's Likud coalition holds a margin of 64 to 56 in the Knesset, tradition dictates that Herzog would have to ask someone...
When brilliant scholars resign, the faculty, and hence the institutions as a whole, begin to suffer. Says Larry Faulkner, one of the University of Illinois' experts in electrochemistry: "Stability makes the difference between an absolutely first-class state university and a mediocre one. You are able to congregate a great faculty because of a certain atmosphere-and when that gets destroyed, it's hard to put it back together again." Faulkner, 38, was particularly concerned that Illinois would not be able to pay his pension when he retired. Last week he moved into...
...protest against the government crackdown. "I do not want to keep silent lest it imply complicity," said Viaux. "The armed forces have been employed to repress the call of national protest." The signs of dissension in the military came after a week of mounting civilian pressure on Pinochet to resign...
...clubs that routinely exclude women or members of minority groups. A nay vote, argued Dennis Archer of Detroit, "would be an A.B.A.-sanctioned blackball against some of your colleagues." The delegates backed the proposal, 183 to 152, although there was no official recommendation that lawyers as individuals should resign membership in discriminatory clubs...
...Tanaka's popularity caught up with him in 1974, when a Japanese magazine exposed the fact that he had used a skein of dummy corporations and false tax statements to conceal his shadowy ways of making money. Amid the public uproar that ensued, Tanaka felt compelled to resign...