1.   Blinder resigned to return to Princeton University.

2.   Bowles will replace Leon Panetta, who is resigning to return to California, possibly to run for governor.

3.   Clinton opened the news conference by announcing that, as expected, chief of staff Leon Panetta is resigning to return to California.

4.   He resigned to return to the family business.

5.   It opened up when Alan Blinder resigned last month to return to Princeton University.

6.   Jamie Gorelick, who built a reputation as a hard-driving, efficient deputy attorney general, announced Tuesday that she was resigning to return to private life.

7.   Kanakis apparently had planned to resign to return to law school anyway.

8.   Affleck succeeds Alice Klement, who resigned to return to teaching.

9.   Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor told Clinton he intended to resign to return to California.