Word: resignations
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...some of the people working in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," after the architect of the Holocaust. Hamilton canceled Churchill's engagement, but the furor spread. Outraged Colorado house members unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "evil and inflammatory" words. Colorado Governor Bill Owens called on Churchill to resign and urged lawmakers to consider changing tenure rules, normally the purview of the school and the elected board of regents that governs the state system. Wisconsin's state assembly overwhelmingly approved a nonbinding resolution asking the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater to cancel a March 1 speech by Churchill...
...about €3.5 million. That's the amount Breton, 50, left on the table when he stepped down as chief executive of France Télécom late last month to become France's new Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, replacing Hervé Gaymard who resigned in a scandal over subsidized housing. Breton's annual salary drops to €140,000 from €1.4 million. He also waived a €2.3 million severance package and had to resign all his French directorships. Why bother? Friends say he has political aspirations and is close to Prime Minister Jean...
...summer of 1993, the young Larry Summers faced an enviable choice: resign from his professorship at Harvard so he could hold on to his top position at the World Bank, or return to the University from his leave of absence and get to work revolutionizing the field of economics...
...reason 32 percent of the faculty, according to a Crimson poll, want their president to resign has little to do with Innate-gate (referring, of course, to the word for which Summers was loudly condemned, but that he never said). They dislike him because he challenged their work ethic at a meeting, or refused to include all of them on Allston planning, or declined to offer their spouse tenure, or took a courageous stand against Israeli divestment. All of which should be reason to praise Summers, not condemn...
Though the opposition forces were successful in getting Karami to resign, Lecturer of Government Carol R. Saivetz said there are still many unanswered questions in Lebanon’s pursuit of independence...