Word: resignations
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...move into the "fast" lane to add a few years to your life, but then you'd be stuck behind legions of losers trying to turn left. Somehow, those canny Cambridge traffic controllers never figured that turn arrows at intersections could save people a lot of aggravation. So you resign yourself to a slightly shorter ride in a continuous cloud of instant smog...
...sitting and reflect Foster's sense that, as a top White House official paraphrased the note, "Washington is an unhappy place." An aide who read a transcript said, "If you didn't know what Vince had done, you would have thought at worst that he was going to resign...
After months of resisting pressure to resign, fbi Director William Sessions said he would leave only if President Clinton fired him; Clinton obliged and promptly nominated U.S. District Judge Louis Freeh for the position. A former fbi agent, Freeh, 43, first made a name for himself as a federal prosecutor in New York City, where he helped obtain the 1987 convictions of a Mafia drug- dealing ring in the Pizza Connection cases...
...tortuous, scandal-plagued tenure of William Sessions with two short phone calls: the first to tell Sessions he was dismissed, the second to add that it was effective immediately. Appointed to a 10-year term in 1987 by Ronald Reagan, Sessions had been under pressure to resign since January, when the Bush Administration's Justice Department released a report accusing him of a range of ethical violations, including misuse of bureau planes and limousines. But Sessions refused to step down. "It was not hard," Clinton said later of the firing...
...General Carl Mundy, passed out antigay video tapes at meetings. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Colin Powell, while talking cooperation with the White House, instigated behind-the-scenes opposition to the President. In a speech in Annapolis, he had told sailors he would understand if they chose to resign in the event that they ultimately disagreed with the President's decision...