Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of us found employment right after college. Marriage, followed by children, made me resign, as many other classmates did, from what is still called "work" as opposed to what's done in the home. I have to say I chose to withdraw...
...summoned before the Communist-dominated State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament). The Duma wanted an explanation for the slaughter of up to 93 Russian soldiers in a rebel ambush in Chechnya. Grachev publicly decried "all the outrages that are happening in this country" and offered to resign, should the Duma require it. "He was signaling to Yeltsin that his loyalty could not be taken for granted," says the defense analyst. "And he [was] also signaling to the opposition that he might not be all that loyal to Yeltsin anymore...
...what Dole himself concocted. In the past when Dole campaigns flagged, he fired staff members. This time he fired himself. Noted former Senate aide Lawrence O'Donnell: "Psychologically, Dole could never take walking out on the Senate floor as a mere Senator. He had it in him to resign but not to take a demotion...
...following day Dole conferred with Reed in his Senate office and without preamble said he was going to resign. From the majority leadership? Reed asked. No, the whole shooting match, Dole replied. Reed recognized the "transformational" power of such a move and encouraged Dole to go with his own instinct. As a candidate unencumbered by office, he could follow his own version of triangulation, distancing himself from Newt and attacking Beltway Bill...
...Dole took Barbour aside and told him he was going to resign both jobs. Barbour was as relieved as he was astounded. Reed pushed Dole to make the announcement on May 7, but Senate business intervened. Instead, May 15 was chosen. Dole, Reed and Helprin all agreed that the speech should be short and poignant. Dole discussed with them whether to include a section contrasting himself with Clinton, but then demurred. Although he was resigning, he had come to praise, not to bury...