Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could be waiting forever if price is your only reason to hold out. Just resign yourself to the fact that in one week your new 50-kajillion-dollar computer will be worth the value of one floppy disk and deal...
JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH Scandal widens; two I.O.C. members resign. That $14,000 sword from Nagano is hanging over his head...
...remark correlating black people's ambitions with loose shoes, among other things, deservedly cost him his job. But what if the statement in question was offensive only to people who misunderstood its meaning? Just ask David Howard, a former aide to Washington, D.C., mayor Anthony Williams, who had to resign for using a word that was mistakenly considered to be racist...
...town of Emporia, a Republican stronghold where people generally agree that it would be better if Clinton disappeared, has supported the principal's decision to resign: reaching out to him in this painful moment but not trying to change his mind. "It's been a tough week," says Kathy Dreirer, whose daughters attend the principal's school. "The big thing at our house is lying," Dreirer says. "The kids ask, 'Why can the President get away with it, and we cannot?' I can't explain it. So I have to tell them, 'Because we're not his parents...
...second term as Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, decided to enter politics when she was watching the impeachment and ouster of Governor Evan Mecham. After she became education chief, in 1995, Keegan battled with Governor--and soon to be convicted felon--Fife Symington. When she suggested that he resign, a Symington crony said she was having "a bad hair day." Last week Keegan joined Governor Jane Hull, secretary of state Betsey Bayless, treasurer Carol Springer and attorney general Janet Napolitano (the lone Democrat) in the nation's first all-female state administration. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra...