Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tory victory in a new election. But Thatcher has taken every opportunity to attack Callaghan for his handling of the unions. Last week, for example, she brandished a challenge: "You no longer have the courage to act. Will you not then at least have the courage to resign?" The Prime Minister declined...
...with the giant Siemens electronics corporation in Coburg; and Gerhard Arnold, 43, an executive of a Munich computer company. None was as big a fish as Günter Guillaume, longtime former aide to Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose arrest for spying in 1974 eventually forced an embarrassed Brandt to resign. But all were professional specialists working in sensitive areas. Hauffe apparently had been active as a spy since 1951, Arnold since...
...often capable people. Stephen Guptill, 34, had just been appointed secretary of the office of elder affairs in Massachusetts when reporters learned that in applying for his first job Guptill had falsely claimed two degrees still on his resume. Said Guptill, when forced to resign: "I made a stupid mistake 14 years ago, and nine years of hard work and dedication to the elderly is being ignored...
...approval of Gyllenhammar's plan. Ironically, that was good news for Norway's Nordli. His minority Labor government faced increasing protests in the Storting (parliament) over the Swedish linkup and there were opposition threats of a no-confidence vote that could have forced him to resign. Reason for the resentment: the widespread feeling that Norway's prospective percentage of Volvo was not worth as much as Nordli was willing...
Khomeini's spokesman replied "that as long as Bakhtiar does not resign there will be no meeting...