Word: resignment
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Providing moral focus for the demonstrations was Chamlong Srimuang, a retired general and former governor of Bangkok who heads the opposition Palang Dharma party. A Buddhist, Chamlong announced that he would fast unto death to force Suchinda to resign. That vow sparked the antigovernment rallies. Suchinda fought back by accusing critics of promoting social unrest and declaring that he would resign only if his coalition suffered a parliamentary defeat. Suchinda's defiance was undermined, however, when his five-party coalition, clearly shaken by events, agreed to four constitutional amendments, including one that would require the Prime Minister...
...blame him for the insensitivity of a few students? No one calls for President Neil L. Rudenstine to resign during controversies over the content of student publications in the College. (We wonder if any administrator could long survive if it were standard practice to fire them whenever someone at Harvard feels offended by a parody or an editorial...
Antonson called the referendum "one means to assess what classmates are thinking. We do not have the power to require Dean Clark to resign should the referendum be passed...
...HYATT REGENCY IN Pittsburgh last week, senior managers of the $3.3 billion bank holding company Equimark sat in miserable silence while a shareholder, retired C.P.A. Joseph Cestello, scolded them for their "outrageously generous" compensation, including stock options and hefty retirement pay. Cestello even suggested that the company's board resign "for lack of oversight" and demanded that Equimark, whose losses totaled $148 million in the past two years, adopt policies that would tie pay to performance...
...three years after Moscow's army pulled out. But as mujahedin forces led by Ahmad Shah Massoud marched on the capital of Kabul from the north, more and more of the government's army commanders went over to him, creating new coalitions in the field. Najibullah was forced to resign two weeks ago, and went into hiding...