Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deficit with a zozei, a stiff tax increase, either on personal income or consumer goods. Stung by a vociferous backlash against new taxes, Ohira tried to soft-pedal the issue just before the election, but by then it was too late. Although Ohira can safely ignore demands that he resign, to form a Cabinet he will probably have to surrender some prized ministerial portfolios to the disgruntled powerbrokers who head rival factions within the L.D.P. Last week the Bull looked corralled and sounded bearish. Confessed Ohira: "I should have been more cautious in bringing up the zozei issue...
...Ange Patasse, a prominent opposition figure who had quit the Bokassa regime in 1978 in protest over its atrocities, staged anti-French demonstrations when his departure from Paris was held up by technicalities. At week's end Patasse castigated Dacko as an accomplice of Bokassa and demanded he resign. Part of it, no doubt, was pique that Dacko got there first; reportedly, Patasse had been plotting a coup...
...professors, the acid exchanges with South Viet Nam's leaders as a peace treaty drew near, and the angry threat from Nixon that finally brought Saigon around. The memoirs describe Kissinger's painful falling-out with Nixon and his decision-never acted upon because Watergate intervened-to resign from public office some time...
Nixon was justifiably infuriated by assertions that I had opposed the bombing. I sensed that my period in office should draw to a close. If negotiations collapsed, I would resign immediately, assuming full responsibility. If they succeeded, I would see the settlement through and then resign toward the end of 1973. But for Watergate, I would have carried out this plan...
...little more than two years, to the astonishment of the financial world, the corporate campaign has driven Stevens' chairman from the boards of Manufactures Hanover, Inc. and New York Life, forced the resignation of a second director from Man Hanny and compelled two outside directors to resign from the Stevens board. Rogers' campaign is so effective that Stevens' director of public relations calls it the financial equivalent of "knee-capping"--the tactic used by Italian terrorists to immobilize political and corporate leaders...