Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company. Born along the Pamlico River in rural Beaufort County, she was the oldest of nine children; her parents were divorced while she was young. She attended high school in South Orange, N.J., and Philadelphia, where she had relatives. She returned to Washington to get her diploma, but quit when school officials insisted that she repeat a year. She worked as a sheet-rock finisher, making up to $275 a week, but was arrested twice in 1973 on charges that included shoplifting and carrying a concealed rifle in her car. She drew a suspended sentence for shoplifting...
...first moderates to quit the Cabinet were the Mario Soares Socialists, who protested against the M.F.A.'s political blueprint for the creation of local revolutionary councils, which would virtually eliminate political parties (TIME, July 21). The Socialists were followed last week by the centrist Popular Democrats (P.P.D.) and by two independent ministers, who pulled out of the coalition when they failed to receive assurances from the military that press freedom would be restored and parliamentary democracy would be established...
...shell-shocked superintendents maintain that true peace is possible only through retirement. After wrestling thanklessly with budget problems for two years, Alflorence Cheatham resigned as the Cambridge, Mass., superintendent last spring, citing poor health. Says he: "There is only so much you can take. I got worn out and quit. Now I'm reading four and five books a week...
Three of the board's seven blacks and all four of the whites then voted to dismiss Sizemore. When it became clear that she would not quit, the board voted last week to offer her two one-year consulting contracts totaling $50,000 if she would leave quietly and drop the remaining 14 months of her $41,700-a-year contract. At week's end, Sizemore was considering the offer...
...however, doctors grounded inm because of an occasional irregularity in ins heartbeat. Bitterly disappointed ("I got zapped by a three-man board of civilian doctors who didn't examine me except for about two minutes with a stethoscope"), he continued to fight for a flight even after he quit the Air Force in 1963 and took over as NASA's director of flight-crew operations, winch made inm boss of all the astronauts. A physical-fitness nut who runs-not jogs-a brisk two miles a day, Slayton finally found a cardiologist who was willing to certify...