Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation has become so dire that many of the poorer teams have become virtual minor league franchises. Whenever a young player for a small market club becomes a star, the team must trade him before his contract expires because it cannot afford to resign...
...since summer, all he has to do is look at Bill Paxon. Paxon is the lean, boyish, irrepressibly upbeat Congressman from upstate New York who might have become Speaker of the House last July if the attempt to overthrow Gingrich had succeeded. The coup failed, Paxon was forced to resign his leadership post and Gingrich has since reasserted a semblance of control, over both his weight and his troops...
...performed admirably in numerous executive posts, from assembly to product planning to chairman of Ford Switzerland. But in 1994, when he was named chairman of the automaker's powerful finance committee (which oversees the purse strings), his ascension seemed more certain. That promotion required him to resign his operating role within the company, prompting his move to the Lions, headed by his father William Clay Ford Sr.--also a former Ford executive and finance-committee chairman...
Unfortunately following that disappointing 2-8 season, Bibro returned to the doctor that winter and underwent yet another surgery--this one arthroscopic. With only two years left in his career and very little left of his knee, rather than resign himself to retirement as others might have done, Bibro returned his junior year and topped his previous year's totals with 47 tackles. His performance spearheaded a defense which ranked third against the run in the nation and 18th overall...
...Last week it was revealed that Chubais was one of five co-authors who received $90,000 advances for a book on the history of privatization. Yeltsin promptly fired two of the writers, First Deputy Chief of Staff Alexander Kazakov and Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Boiko, and accepted the resignation of a third, Cabinet member Pyotr Mostovoi. Chubais also offered to resign, but Yeltsin, who reprimanded him, felt he was still needed to clean up the economic mess...