Word: resignations
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...years after an internal party investigation found that he bought votes during UMNO elections last year. The most senior casualty so far in Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's anti-corruption campaign, Isa has 14 days to appeal the suspension. If it is upheld, he will be forced to resign from his ministership...
...Stockman, but Stockman, by his own admission, again and again failed to return that trust. The mystery in this account is why Stockman did not lay his fears of impending financial disaster squarely on the President's desk. Or why, if others thwarted his honest intentions, he did not resign. His self-exoneration--describing how he was flitting here and there in righteous dismay, confronting all those mindless Californians around Reagan, struggling to "work from within" to avert the catastrophe he so clearly saw before him--does not go down well. He confesses to being too enamored of power...
...restraint soon ended. In November, even before Wallis Simpson's second divorce was final, the King informed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of his intention to marry her. Baldwin vowed to resign rather than allow an American divorcée to become Queen; he also argued that tradition did not permit a morganatic marriage, in which she would not assume royal prerogatives...
...people who were top banking and government finance officials at the time of the country's infamous 1983 bank-stock crash. Most of them had left their jobs after the debacle. Now the Bejski panel has recommended that six senior banking officials be fired if they refuse to resign. The six are the heads of five major private banks and Moshe Mandelbaum, governor of the government-run Bank of Israel, which is the country's counterpart to the U.S. Federal Reserve. The commission urged that four of the five executives be barred for life from the industry. By week...
Although he is serving a twoyear prison sentence for filing false tax returns, Federal Judge Harry E. Claiborne refused to resign from the bench, insisting that he had been wrongfully convicted. The House demonstrated its disbelief by voting for impeachment in July. Last week, after its first impeachment trial in 50 years, the Senate found Claiborne guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors," removing him from office and stripping him of the $78,700 salary he was drawing while imprisoned at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. Claiborne, 69, became the fifth federal official, all judges, ever ousted by impeachment. HISTORY Rerouting...