Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Simultaneously, veteran Diplomat William G. Bowdler, who was on the U.S. team that earlier this year tried to persuade Somoza to step down, met with representatives of the rebel government in Costa Rica. The Americans' mission: to seek agreement on a new peace proposal under which Somoza would resign in favor of a new provisional government dominated by moderates but in which both the Sandinistas and pro-Somoza conservatives would be represented. The rebel government, however, regards the plan as yet another attempt by Washington to interfere in Nicaragua's internal affairs...
...demanding if unofficial activities of Smythe's predecessors, their high-ranking brothers and sundry surrogates." Yes, the rumored past meshes readily with the fictional future as Ehrlichman's President Hugh Frankling faces the danger in 1981 of becoming "the third elected President in a row" to resign from office. Ehrlichman never explains how or why the second, Jimmy Carter, was pushed...
...truly enough said, that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience...Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think we should be men first, and subjects afterwards...
Reginald R. Isaacs, Norton Professor of Regional Planning Emeritus and chairman of the department of CRP from 1953 to 1964, has persistently criticized Kilbridge's policies. He says Kilbridge resigned because he lost the confidence of the alumni and the Overseers. However, other observers within the department say Kilbridge received the strongest backing he has ever received in the last few years. Gerrald M. McCue, associate dean of the faculty of design, analyzed Kilbridge's departure, saying, "He's in a period of greater support than ever before. I suspect his motivation was to get out while he was ahead...
...paper empire, tried unsuccessfully to succeed his friend Jimmy Carter as Governor of Georgia, took over the National Bank of Georgia and followed Carter to Washington as the President's Budget Director and closest confidant. But last week, a year and a half after being forced to resign his office because of his questionable financial deals, he found himself in the basement of the federal courthouse in Atlanta, holding up a number for a mug shot and waiting to be fingerprinted...