Word: resignations
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Burke may need more than courage to survive in his increasingly hazardous job. Rumors swirled last week that the CBS News chief, who was named to the position in August 1988 after eleven years at ABC, was about to resign. In the corridors of CBS News, Burke was criticized not only for his handling of the Rooney affair but also for his aloof and uncommunicative management style. (Burke, head of one of the nation's leading news organizations, routinely turns down all press interviews.) He is also under pressure to reverse the ratings slide of the CBS Evening News...
...Shervert H. Frazier, former head of the Med School's Department of Psychology, was forced to resign last year after admitting that he had plagiarized an article many years...
...Boston chapter of the Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP) has called on Graham to resign from an advisory board to the foundation, which has close ties to the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Graham serves on the advisory board to the Next Century Innovative Schools Program, which will donate $30 million over the next five years to elementary and secondary schools willing to "take risks" in order to improve the quality of education...
Daynard in December wrote Graham a letter andformally asked her to resign from the advisoryboard. He charged that RJ Reynolds was trying to"insinuate itself into the schools" through theNext Century Schools Fund...
...been formed to draft the city's congressional delegate, Walter Fauntroy, as a candidate for mayor. Barry, who is undergoing treatment for alcoholism in Florida, blasted the indictment as a "political lynching." Some of his advisers suggest that his motive for staying in office is to offer to resign as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a lighter sentence. If convicted, he could be fined $1.25 million and sentenced to 20 years in prison...