Six ministers have quit since Sunday.
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The envoy, Michael Steiner, chief diplomatic aide to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, has been under pressure to quit since publication of the cable this month embarrassed the government.
"I'm so glad you're still in that uniform," I said, thinking of all the officers who had quit since the storm.
Democratic officials said Sunday night that Representative Marion Berry of Arkansas was expected to announce plans to retire Monday, making him the first to quit since the Massachusetts election and opening up another competitive race.
He is the first and thus far the only member of the foreign service to quit since Mr Netanyahu became prime minister two years ago and installed Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the hard-right Yisrael Beitenu party, as foreign minister.
When B.Ben Baldanza, the top-ranking marketing executive at US Airways, left it to join Spirit Airlines last week, he was described as the first senior executive to quit since US Airways filed for bankruptcy protection on Sept. 12.
AstraZeneca, the drug maker, said its chairman, Percy Barnevik, who helped create the company in a 1999 merger, would leave its board, the fourth he has quit since investors protested his retirement package from the engineering company ABB Ltd.
Brown had no inkling that Purnell was going to quit, since the work and pensions secretary shrouded his move in secrecy in order to prevent No 10 mounting a pre-emptive strike against him, or seeking to challenge his motives.
Chief Operating Officer Ray Lane Ray Lane and Executive Vice President Gary Bloom Gary Bloom have quit since the summer.
