Word: resignations
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...sisters are equivalent in need to one overburdened single parent? How many cross-country stars are worth a concert cellist? Rather than looking at a student--at his abilities, his potential, and his circumstances--colleges would be forced to drop the relevant facts into the right holes and resign themselves to whatever decision the financial aid standards dictate. If some mishap or oversimplification of need and ability ties David's hands before he can offer the first blow, we can only shake our heads, sigh and remind him that we are only trying to be fair...
...contrast to sport stars, politicians usually do not resign at the top of their career. A man who single-handedly rescued the Freedom Party after taking over its helm in 1986 does not quit when he is as close to his self-proclaimed goal of becoming Chancellor as never before. Despite his resignation as head of the Freedom Party, his successor said Haider is still the party's "leading...
...looks as though it's trying to assert unilateral power. It doesn't need another one." While Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has asked the E.U. not to take the Koch-Weser rebuke as an attempt to keep Fischer in power, it appears Schroeder will have to resign himself to the fact that the next IMF chief will not be a German. "There's always the chance with a situation like this," notes Graff, "that if they can't decide on a candidate from a major country, they'll just give the post to some genius from from a small...
Just two weeks ago, the program's chair, Hazel V. Carby, resigned, saying Yale President Richard Levin had disparaged the program by comparing it unfavorably with Harvard's Afro-American studies department. She also said Yale's refusal to recognize the program as a department was a factor in her decision to resign...
Chamber President Gerald Oldach says it was not unfair treatment, but rather a difference in ideologies that led the women to resign...