Word: resignment
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...great talent outside the Congress. It would also blur the separation of Executive and Legislative powers set forth in the Constitution, a distinction that is basic to the American system of government. There is no guarantee, either, that giving Cabinet members a political home to retreat to after resignation would alter what appears to be a basic reluctance of Americans in power to resign publicly on an issue of principle...
...confidential letter to his colleagues in November. Bell threatened to resign it the Law School did not substantially increase its efforts to hire minority faculty...
Earlier this year, Peretz announced he would resign his mastership at the end of the current academic term...
...policy, and Wilson, a man who has traditionally placed party unity above all, is now presiding over what may prove to be the worst Labor crisis since World War II. Some pro-EEC Labor ministers, notably Home Secretary Roy Jenkins and Consumer Affairs Minister Shirley Wilson, have threatened to resign if the vote should go against the Common Market...
...into a test case for our policy." He intimated that the U.S. may recognize the government of North Viet Nam before long, and he disclosed that the U.S. has made a number of recent diplomatic overtures to Cuba. With some heat, he denied reports that he was about to resign: "To leave in a period of turmoil, when people are looking for a sense of direction and when foreign nations are watching us-I think it would not be a service to the country...