Word: resignations
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Richard Milhous Nixon was the only American president ever to resign. His treachery and deceit while at the pinnacle of power in the free world sullied the Oval Office and betrayed the trust implicit in the most sacred of American possesions, the vote...
...Chief Justice William Rehnquist, a widower, recently started dating a woman who lives on the West Coast. Sources say he appears to be developing a greater interest in his private life at the same time that he's tiring of the court's legal grind. If Rehnquist decides to resign during Clinton's presidency, Mitchell would probably be the leading candidate for the post...
Ultimately Ionesco must resign, defeated by the complexity of the monster he tries to describe. Innumerable counterpoints between what is rationality and what is naivete, subversion and loyalty, principle and experimentation, illusion and distortion are too much to sort out. Ionesco deliberately muddles his discussions with multiple speakers all declaiming at once, and the simple absurdity of people metamorphosing into thick-skinned pachyderms all testify to his won uncertainty. The effect is a mood of irrationality and mayhem as close to the experience of a real Nazi town as can be imagined. Today his vision nags like a trauma sustained...
Walsh has to comprehend that he can do more for Cambridge by resigning than by remaining on the council as a lame duck. He's already been in office for nine years, and his fellow council members and the citizens of Cambridge will never again see him in the same light. Thus, for his own good and for ours, we must ask unconditionally that Walsh resign as soon as he can make his way to Cambridge City Hall...
President Clinton signed into law a measure offering buyouts of as much as $25,000 to federal employees who resign or retire early. The measure, an attempt to streamline the federal bureaucracy in a humane way, calls for elimination of nearly 273,000 workers...