Word: resignment
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...unusually strong demonstration of McCarthyism at Harvard, a top university official has admitted that Harvard forced a leftist professor to resign in 1954 after he refused to say whether or not he was a Communist...
...From what we can see … it does appear that Mr. Ginger was asked to resign from his term appointment as Assistant Professor of Business Administration in 1954 because he declined to answer a question regarding whether he was at the time a member of the Communist Party,” Gagnon wrote...
Ginger had a three-year contract as an assistant professor that he was forced to abandon, but there is still no known case in which a tenured professor was forced to resign...
...RESIGNED. XANANA GUSMAO, 54, as President of East Timor's National Council, saying internal squabbling hampered the territory's transition to independence; in Dili. Gusm?o, who for many years led a guerrilla war against Indonesia and was widely tipped to become President, quit the defacto parliament after it refused to consult the people on the proposed new constitution. RESIGNED. RICHARD LEAKEY, 56, conservationist renowned for spearheading the fight against elephant poaching in Africa, as head of Kenya's civil service; in Nairobi. Leakey's appointment by President Daniel arap Moi in 1999 to tackle the country's endemic corruption...
...position at home. The crisis hit at the most delicate moment in his career since he took power after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. More than anyone else, he was responsible for restoring U.S.-China relations after that uprising. But Jiang turns 75 this year and is likely to resign his position at a party conference in late 2002. The question is, Who will replace him and his allies, and which, if any, of his current titles will he be allowed to keep? So far he has fared badly, failing to maneuver his followers into key spots or secure...