Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether intentionally or not, Burford is not doing her job, controlling and cleaning up pollution. If she will not follow the Congressional mandate which created the EPA she should resign, leaving her agency free to clean itself up and recommit itself to making America safe...
...indulged himself with a lofty and fairly encyclopedic denunciation of Diana's faults. It was he who said that she was spoiled, fiendish and a monster, that she was spending too much money on clothes shaming the nation's upper classes by having temper tantrums that drove staff to resign, and making Charles "desperately unhappy...
Like a bunch of lemmings, we propel each other forward, masochistically trying to be more reckless than the next. Vanity is hopeless and we resign ourselves to looking and smelling our worst. Friends from other parties tell us that Palmer Dixon is like a sauna, the stench unbearable. As Commissioner Gordon wraps up its set, the hockey crowd has, for the most part, left to go to other post-game parties. However, we trudge onwards oblivious to the last break...
Kodak is one of a growing number of recession-plagued companies that are trying to make their payrolls lean without being mean. Seeking to avoid demoralizing layoffs, many corporate managers are designing special incentives, sometimes called open windows, to recruit volunteers who are eager, or at least willing, to resign or retire. Most such offers are good for a limited time only, because the companies want to trim, not decimate, their staffs. Kodak's program began Jan. 4 and expires...
While the furor grew last week, the student newspaper the Plainsman proposed its solution to the crisis: "No more long-winded analyses on the controversy. Dr. Funderburk, for the good of Auburn University, please resign." But President Funderburk, saying he is indeed acting for the good of the university, insists that he will stay...