Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 2 that Argentine troops invaded the Falkland Islands, a remote and irrelevant British colony 400 miles off the Argentine coast. The House of Commons reverberated with cries of "Resign!" Thatcher boldly dispatched a task force, which grew to more than 100 vessels, to the windswept South Atlantic. It was a 19th century show of force against "a tinpot dictator," as the British haughtily described Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri...
...number of Polish factories will be released from the military supervision that has proliferated since the declaration of martial law. But the same disciplinary rules will continue to prevail, meaning that managers can fire workers without appeal, and that workers cannot resign without management approval. The government also plans to review managers of state enterprises, top government officials and officials in schools of higher learning for both professional competence and "moral character...
...YORK--Alabama's Paul "Bear" Bryant, whose teams have won more games than those of any coach in the history of college football, will resign Wednesday and will be replaced by Ray Perkins, coach of the National Football League's New York Giants, informed sources told the Associated Press Tuesday night...
...paralyzed the institution. Suzuki held on to power by saying, and doing, virtually nothing. Finally, when faced with such growing problems as a rising budget deficit, Western displeasure with Japanese trade surpluses and the need to prune a mushrooming government bureaucracy, Suzuki announced in October that he would resign as soon as a successor could be named...
Charges of impropriety, though, have popped up sporadically since Amway was started in 1959. Its way of doing business has made it vulnerable to probing by U.S. agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission and the Internal Revenue Service, and caused its auditors, Arthur Andersen & Co., to resign...