Word: resignations
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hard to argue that the LDP's performance of late has been anything but miserable. Each of the three leaders since Koizumi - Shinzo Abe, Yasuo Fukuda and Aso, has seemed less impressive than the last. Last month, Aso's Finance Minister, Shoichi Nakagawa, was forced to resign after appearing to be drunk (he said he was suffering the after-effects of cold medication) at a press conference during an important international meeting. "Typically recessions were good for the LDP," says Jesper Koll, president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan, "but this time around it is sort of pathetic. The government...
...infighting led the finance minister to resign last month, complaining that he had become "a hostage to politics." The lack of unity on the budget also led the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to delay disbursement of the second installment of a $16.4 billion loan, sorely needed to shore up banks and the wobbling currency...
Bunning, Sen. Jim • Republican opposition to re-election efforts of reportedly prompts threat - "I would get the last laugh. Don't forget Kentucky has a Democrat governor" - to resign...
...fired officials as fallen communist angels - he wrote that Perez Roque and Lage were "liberated from their posts" not because they were Fidelistas but because "the honey of power" had infected them and "awakened in them ambitions" that made them "unworthy." After that the two men were compelled to resign their posts in the powerful Council of State and the even more important Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party...
...When the story of Adams's and Breedlove broke, the most broadcast cause of public ire was the fact that Adams had lied about the relationship—not that he’d cultivated a homosexual liaison with a younger person. Yet the calls for Adams to resign and the media coverage of the issue have tinged the affair with a pallor of homophobia and judgment of Adams’s sexual behavior...