Word: resignment
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...smacked the insurance industry by temporarily blocking a 26% increase in auto premiums and vowing to clamp down on other "outrageous" rates. Accusing the insurance regulatory board of being too cozy with the firms it is supposed to oversee, she threatened a takeover if two members did not resign. One agreed to step down...
...come under increasing fire in recent years. At Princeton, a lawsuit forced the remaining all-male eating clubs to admit women. Three U.S. Senators who are alumni of the Yale Skull and Bones club have called for co-education at that club. Presidential candidates and federal judicial nominees routinely resign from all-male clubs...
...Kelley moved over to the Washington Post as an editorial-page researcher; two years later, she was asked to resign for making notes unrelated to her job. One day in 1973 she turned up at Washingtonian magazine with an unpublished book written by the novelist Barbara Howar. Kitty claimed that she had found the manuscript in the drawer of a table sold at Howar's yard sale and wanted the Washingtonian to print excerpts. When Howar heard about it, she raised a mighty fuss; only one copy of the manuscript existed, she said, and this she kept on the third...
...long "Column One" pieces on group violence to two Times Mirror polls showing deteriorating support for police chief Daryl Gates. It was not until Coffey and other editors interviewed Gates and published what he said, however, that the editorial board ran a cautious editorial calling on the chief to resign...
...interview televised in Britain, Abu Sharif hinted that a Palestinian state might not have to include every last bit of the West Bank; the implication was that Israel might keep part of that occupied territory. The P.L.O. disavowed any such idea, and Abu Sharif reportedly offered to resign. Still, his words pointed to unconventional thinking within the P.L.O...