Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these skeptical times, polls may be the one remaining authority that the press customarily accepts without question. The subject may be the Panama invasion (the public supported it), the arrest of Mayor Marion Barry (Washingtonians thought he should resign), or Jane Pauley's treatment by NBC (PEOPLE readers who answered a call-in survey found it unfair), but editors rarely meet a poll they don't like. Polls have even been published reporting the number of California drivers with paraphernalia hanging from their rearview mirrors (8%), and Iowans with ornaments on their lawns...
...days at his dacha on the outskirts of Moscow two weeks ago, Gorbachev drafted a proposal that would reduce the party's role in government decision making and significantly enhance his powers as head of the Supreme Soviet. As a Moscow analyst explained, "The party, not Gorbachev, needs to resign from managing the economy and society...
Singh has conceded, however, that the Kashmiris have many justified laments. Two weeks ago he appointed as governor Jagmohan, an efficient administrator who governed the state from 1984 to 1989, thereby prompting Farooq Abdullah, the unpopular chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, to resign in protest. Eager to demonstrate his goodwill, Jagmohan has distributed food during curfews, created new jobs and offered nearly $3,000 each to the families of three civilians killed by Indian guards. But tempers in Kashmir are still too short to be soothed by token measures...
Earlier, several discredited Communist deputies were asked to resign and were replaced by candidates of the Civic Forum, a loose reform coalition...
...imbroglio came to light last December, when Mary Cartwright, personnel director for the Hoosier Lottery, accused her boss, Jack Crawford, of sexual harassment and he was forced to resign. Out of concern for the couple's privacy, Governor Evan Bayh initially kept a lid on embarrassing documents Cartwright presented: a handwritten contract in which Crawford promised to pay Cartwright $125 a week and a pledge to promote her to lottery director if he ever became Governor. But Bayh made the documents public two weeks ago, after Crawford indicated he might run for prosecutor of Marion County and Cartwright charged that...