Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khomeini's reassertion of radical Islamic rejectionism soon claimed his appointed successor, Ayatullah Ali Montazeri, 65, as a victim. Montazeri had harshly criticized the war with Iraq and did not endorse the killing of Rushdie. In late March he was forced to resign...
...House action. Deposed Speaker Jim Wright was tougher to lampoon -- the charges against him involved abstruse House rules rather than booze and women -- but that didn't stop the monologuists from trying. (Carson on Wright's negotiations with the House ethics committee: "Part of the deal was he would resign if the committee would buy 10,000 copies of his book...
...Robert A. Hastings '57 announces his decision to resign as executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) at the end of this academic year...
Scores of policy advisors to the Dukakis campaign--including Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and Ropes Professor of Political Economy Lawrence H. Summers--had to resign themselves to an extended stint in the Harvard "liberal boutique" of campaign rhetoric...
When the discussion turned to Wright, who has said he will resign over questions about his personal ethics, Kriss said that before Watergate, journalists had a different view of what was newsworthy...