Word: resignment
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Heads soon began to roll. In May 1975, Mario Einaudi, freewheeling chief of a state-owned mining and textile conglomerate, was forced to resign after he highhandedly tried to gain control of a Genoa shipping, insurance and newspaper group without informing the government. Next to go was Raffaele Girotti, chairman of ENI, who had led the big state petroleum company to a $95 million loss. Camillo Crociani, apparently recognizing that his job was shaky, chose not to wait...
...alienated so many faculty members by his arbitrary decisions, that it is not surprising that the faculty has little confidence in his leadership. Silber should step down, in order to let someone who can work more closely with faculty and students take over. If he continues to refuse to resign, the board of trustees should take it upon themselves to remove him from office. The university cannot continue to function normally, much less to go through a severe economic crisis, in the pervasive atmosphere of distrust that now exists at Boston University...
...Kissinger remains perpetually sensitive to the problems of his effectiveness. Privately, he has said he will resign if he becomes so much of an issue during the campaign that he cannot function. He stays on because he feels that he is the man holding American foreign policy together, especially in the Middle East...
Hall will resign to take a post as president of a management services and counseling corporation headquartered in Boston...
...reporters pontificated and prevaricated. I was prepared for some serious wallowing: visions of Nixon entering the terminal throes of his own hysteria, Pat snitching bourbon from the liquor cabinet, Kissinger taping all his phone calls, Eddie Cox worrying that his father-in-law might kill himself rather than resign...