The investment bank expanded rapidly after 2008, when Barclays bought the Wall Street operations of Lehman Brothers, although in recent days there has been speculation about large-scale resignations following the departure of Skip McGee, head of its US investment banking operations.
Opponents of lifting the ban on gay and lesbian personnel argued that doing so would greatly harm the ADF's cohesiveness and cause large numbers of resignations.
According to the Taiwanese press, the largest group of resignations -- about 120 -- was at Chang Gung Hospital in Kaohsiung.
The Charleston Gazette, the state's largest newspaper, said resignations were necessary, and some members of the faculty said Mr. Lang, Mr. Sears and the university's president, Mike Garrison, should resign.
The atmosphere which had raged for two hours briefly settled into resignation in large swaths of the hall, but not for long.
It played a large role in the resignation in 1996 of New York City's Police Commissioner, William J. Bratton, who found himself in the public spotlight — including on the cover of Time — as the city's crime rate plunged.
In February, He and 17 other Al Wefaq MPs (the largest bloc) submitted their resignations in protest against the government crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.
FDT: One of your good friends, Barry Diller, the chairman of USA Networks, recently made a bid for the portal company Lycos but the deal seems to have bogged down due to David Wetherell's [the chairman of Internet investment company CMGI and Lycos' largest shareholder] resignation from the board in order to seek a higher price.
It is unusual for such a large number of appointments and resignations to happen in one day.
Hezbollah and its Christian supporters then launched a nonviolent protest in downtown Beirut, erecting hundreds of tents outside the main government palace and holding large demonstrations demanding Siniora's resignation.
