Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last week, in what some considered a flagrantly opportune decision, the court cleared away a timing technicality that could have denied Brown the chance. He might also be able to put one more justice on the supreme court. Frank Newman, a liberal he appointed in 1977, has decided to resign, probably by month's end. Condemning the expected "deathbed" appointments, the Governor-elect is now planning various procedural tactics to stop Brown. But the court will continue to have a large liberal-leaning majority, consisting of Jerry Brown's five choices and Stanley Mosk, named by Governor...
...Business School's weekly studies newspaper. The Harbus News, appears in have reserved a personnel dispute which had prompted its top two editors and most of its writing staff to resign...
...reasons for Brezhnev's popularity among his colleagues was that he guaranteed them lifetime job security. With the exception of a few who personally ran afoul of Brezhnev, most Soviet top officials did not resign; they died in office. Now Andropov will have to start replacing as many as 6,000 top officials in every important governing institution in the country, including the Politburo, the Secretariat of the Central Committee, the Presidium of the Council of Ministers, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
...here too, the episode proved so embarrassing and politically fatal that he prefers to forget about it. Instead, he devotes a small chapter to defending Office of Management and Budget head Bert Lance, a personal friend whom he describes as "a good country banker." Lance had been forced to resign his post because of financial improprieties--one wonders why Carter feels compelled to devote so much space to clearing a friend's name...
...tiny police station and confronted the aldermen's chief. There was a melee. Carthan and his accomplices were convicted of assault and given three-year jail sentences; all but Carthan's were suspended. (He began serving his term last summer.) The mayor was required to resign, and Granderson was appointed in his place. Tchula's elections in June 1981 were a last, unequivocal rejection of Carthan's fitful reign: his two supporters on the board of aldermen were defeated, and his white predecessor as mayor was returned to office...