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8 November: Priti Patel, forced to resign as the United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development, after undisclosed meeting with Israeli officials on holiday in the country. [12] 21 November: Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe during the military coup d'état staged by Emmerson Mnangagwa and Constantino Chiwenga.
March 2021 – June 2023: approximate period of the Great Resignation, where quits exceed the previous record The Great Resignation , also known as the Big Quit [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and the Great Reshuffle , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] was a mainly American economic trend in which employees voluntarily resigned from their jobs en masse , beginning in early 2021 during ...
While the main formal term for ending someone's employment is "dismissal", there are a number of colloquial or euphemistic expressions for the same action. "Firing" is a common colloquial term in the English language (particularly used in the U.S. and Canada), which may have originated in the 1910s at the National Cash Register Company. [2]
The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal that came into light in the summer of 2002 at WorldCom, the USA's second-largest long-distance telephone company at the time.
The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States and other officers of the United States federal government assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency (or the office itself, in the instance of succession by the vice president) upon an elected president's death, resignation, removal from office, or incapacity.
In 1957, at the age of 30, Lee won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Chen Ning Yang [2] for their work on the violation of the parity law in weak interactions, which Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally proved from 1956 to 1957, with her well known Wu experiment.
Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov [a] (Ukrainian: Олександр Валентинович Турчинов, IPA: [ɔ.lekˈsan.dr ʋɐ.lenˈtɪ.nɔ.ʋet͡ʃ turˈt͡ʃɪ.nɔu̯]; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, Baptist minister [9] [10] [11] and economist.