Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Asked what he thinks of the juvenile justice system, Bartender laughs and responds, "I wish I were still a juvenile." Now that he is 19 and for the first time answerable for his crimes as an adult, Bartender sometimes talks about quitting the Piru. "This year I have a job. Next year I'll have a car and a pad." But in the next breath, he talks of his loyalty to the gang, the fact that if he were to quit, "there's more chance of those left getting downed [killed] quick. Besides, I live in Crip neighborhood...
...overwhelmed by their reception. Some Vietnamese refugees have been greeted in the U.S. with open hostility. Pham, Tran and their families were welcomed warmly, and with good reason. Sutherland, which is 20 miles from the nearest hospital, has been without a doctor since the town's lone physician quit three years ago. When its citizens learned that Pham, 40, and Tran, 37, who are both physicians, were willing to settle there, they went out of their way to make them feel at home...
...away: its deficit topped $88 million during the first five months of 1975-a record, and exactly double the loss during the same period a year ago. Simultaneously, President Forwood C. Wiser Jr.-nicknamed "Bud" by some associates and "Forward Charge" (because of his initials) by employees-quit, along with Marketing Vice President Blaine Cooke...
Exhausted by months of wrestling with all these difficulties, Wiser, 54, caught the industry by surprise with his abrupt decision to quit. His resignation was accepted last week at a directors' meeting in Denver that he did not even attend; the company cited unspecified "personal considerations" for his leaving. According to company insiders, the exit of Cooke, 57, who has been in poor health recently, was exacerbated by internal criticism of a controversial advertising campaign featuring Actor Peter Sellers...
Adman William G. ("Turk") Jones decided he had had enough of the frenzied pace of Madison Avenue: "Learning to shave on airplanes," as he puts it. So he quit his job in Manhattan, sold his house in the suburbs and in 1946 moved his family to a farm in central Pennsylvania. Then he began to do what he had always wanted-plant trees. Jones had a green thumb, his seedlings thrived, and word of his tree farm began to spread. Consequently, after Pennsylvania passed a law in 1948 requiring strip miners to refill and replant the land they had ravaged...