11.   Arjun Singh, the human resources minister, left little doubt when he resigned on Saturday that he wanted to position himself to succeed Rao as prime minister.

12.   BE INC. FOUNDER LEAVES Jean-Louis Gassee, founder and chief executive of the operating system company Be Inc., resigned on Monday.

13.   Bamond and other jurors were watching television in the courthouse when Symington announced that he was going to resign on Friday.

14.   Because Second Vice President Ricardo Marquez had resigned on Monday, that left Paniagua next in line to succeed Fujimori.

15.   A lawyer for Shapiro, Raymond Schlather of Ithaca, said in a brief telephone interview Wednesday that his client had resigned on good terms with the university.

16.   A tranquil, roughly level positional game was shockingly interrupted Thursday by a horrible blunder by Viswanathan Anand, who was obliged to resign on the spot.

17.   Abandoned by his Labor Party partners in government, Albert Reynolds resigned on Thursday as prime minister.

18.   After Dierker resigned on Thursday after leading the Astros to four National League Central titles in five years, the team initially planned to keep the interview process secret.

19.   After Mitsuzuka resigned on Tuesday, Hashimoto assumed the post temporarily and met with Komura, who indicated he would like to stay on as vice finance minister.

20.   But having seen the incriminating scenes, he ended up resigning on national television.