Word: resignations
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...Swissair rips up its expansion strategy and fires CEO after huge losses. Later all but one board member resign...
...Wednesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is supposed to answer hundreds of thousands of opponents who marched through Caracas last week and gave him an ultimatum: either resign, call an early referendum on your presidency, or face a massive general business and labor strike this month. But Chavez, whose radical left-wing demagoguery has violently polarized the oil-rich nation, can probably afford to ignore the call - and not just because most of Venezuela's poor, who make up 80% of the population, are on his side. Chavez has another, albeit unlikely ally for the moment: George W. Bush...
...spat between old friends. After German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder narrowly won re-election last week, the Bush Administration subjected him to a series of calculated snubs, punishment for a campaign in which he forcefully opposed a war in Iraq--and during which his Justice Minister (since forced to resign) reportedly compared Bush's tactics to Hitler's. One reason for the Bushies' anger, Administration sources claim, is that Schroder left a clear impression with Bush that he would eventually support the U.S. against Iraq. "Schroder looked him in the eye and lied," says one Bush aide. Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer...
...Hart said he was disappointed that no high-ranking officials were fired or offered to resign in the wake of Sept...
...thrown a shadow'' over what otherwise would be a reasonable proposal to protect rights of the accused. Cossiga told TIME he believes Berlusconi and Previti should agree not to invoke the statute in their cases if the law is approved. Cossiga added that if ultimately found guilty, Berlusconi should resign. While leaving his conflict-of-interest legislation on the back burner despite a campaign pledge to resolve it during his first 100 days in office, Berlusconi has been busy pushing his "justice reform" package. It appears to have less to do with justice than with procedural maneuvering in the last...