Word: resignations
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Galluccio’s departure will mark the second retirement of a veteran councillor this year in Cambridge, as seven-termer Michael A. Sullivan announced in August that he would resign. Galluccio had previously pledged to leave the council after the November election if he won the senate seat...
Today that ambition has turned to ashes, Abe is poised to make a humiliating exit from power, and, as a result, Japanese politics has been thrown into disarray. Less than two days after delivering a policy speech to open the new Diet, Abe abruptly announced that he would resign. At a press conference, an emotional Abe acknowledged that he had lost public support, and that a different leader might be able to carry Japan out of the political quagmire his deep unpopularity had created. "I've decided to create a new situation by resigning," the 52-year-old Abe told...
Bush's denials to the contrary, the Administration is holding its breath hoping Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will resign. It only now has figured out that Maliki is too close to Iran. And if Maliki turns out to be obstinate, the Arabic word for coup d'etat is "inqilab...
Mohamed A. El-Erian, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC), will resign at the end of 2007 to take a job with his former company, California-based Pacific Investment Management Company...
...only regret the G.O.P. is likely to feel about the end of Idaho Senator Larry Craig's 27-year congressional career is that it didn't happen two days earlier. Craig's announcement, Saturday, that he intends to resign effective Sept. 30 comes amid the traditional Labor Day weekend campaign launches for the 2008 election cycle. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had not envisioned starting the weekend with the news media dominated by speculation over whether Craig is gay, and why he pled guilty to disorderly conduct on Aug. 8 when accused of soliciting sex from an undercover...