Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late for Packwood just to resign his post...
...those charges by producing portions of his personal diaries unwittingly bred suspicions of other misdeeds: political-favor peddling. His campaign to reseal the diaries gave rise to an overwhelming Senate vote to subpoena the writings. Finally, just as Packwood was coming to the conclusion that he would have to resign, he discovered he had flailed too long. Administration sources say the Justice Department has impaneled a grand jury to begin a criminal investigation into possible ethics violations...
...even if Packwood packs up his political career to avoid further Senate scrutiny, he is likely to remain mired in the Justice inquiry for many months to come. Last Friday rumors swirled that Packwood was set to resign any minute, having hammered out a deal with Senate Republican leaders to exchange his resignation for assurances that no further legal action would be taken against him. By Friday evening there were new reports: Packwood had shelved that plan after he was served with a subpoena on his way to the Senate floor at the behest of the Justice Department's public...
...Senator headed into what many colleagues quietly hoped might be his last weekend in office, Packwood was still insisting that he had no plans to resign. But his isolation was deepening. He risks losing private support for his legal defense, which has already cost $800,000. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Packwood had received 243 donations from officials at some 15 corporations, totaling $275,000. His female accusers, by contrast, have raised only $25,000. Angry consumers then threatened to stop doing business with the offending companies. As those companies, MCI, Eli Lilly and Seagram among them, scrambled to offer...
...aggression, and it was a mistake" -- a statement previous leaders never made so bluntly, partly out of fear of stirring up nationalist constituents. Hosokawa dropped another bombshell at the same press conference when in response to a question he revealed that he would resign if his government didn't pass political-reform bills by the end of the year. Such directness compares favorably with the opacity of politicians like former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, known for not completing his sentences. Says a veteran journalist: "In the past we always had to turn to a commentator to interpret the Prime Minister...