Word: resignment
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...year company veteran who has led the machinists since 1979 and been an Eastern board member since 1983. Known as Chairman Charlie because of his power in the company, Bryan declared that his union would accept 15% wage cuts, but only on one condition: Borman would have to resign as chairman...
...bold and risky ploy. Bryan apparently assumed that Borman would resign rather than agree to sell Eastern. Borman, for his part, calculated that the labor leader would never allow a takeover by Lorenzo. Reason: Lorenzo had enraged virtually every card-carrying union member in 1983, when his Continental Airlines filed for bankruptcy and abrogated the airline's union contracts. Lorenzo laid off the firm's 12,000 employees and offered them their jobs back at about half salary...
Gorbachev has used propaganda organs to build public support before he strikes. In December, Vladimir Promyslov, the de facto mayor of Moscow for 22 years, was forced to resign after the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya ran a series of exposes on corruption in the local housing-construction industry. The same articles brought down Viktor Grishin, who was stripped of his job as head of the Moscow city party committee...
While he was education minister in 1968, he marched side-by-side with a North Vietnamese diplomat at an anti-American rally in Stockholm, which inspired complaints from Washington and demands by the Swedish political opposition that he resign...
...APPALLED to learn that the Institute of Politics had decided to claim editorial control of the Harvard Political Review and to force the magazine's editors to resign if they would not accept their diminished capacity. While the articles in The Crimson suggested a balanced view of the controversy that surrounded the staff's resignation, they also presented a misleading history of the Review and its relationship with the institute. The institute's associate director, Charles Truehart, said that the Review has "always been a creature of the SAC"--the institute's Student Advisory Committee. This remark is wrong--plainly...