Word: quit
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...together, 1.5 million of the jobless are ineligible for unemployment compensation. Among them: self-employed people who have not contributed to unemployment compensation funds; people who have not held steady jobs for the past year, including recent college graduates; people who quit jobs without good cause; workers who have already used up their 52 weeks of unemployment compensation...
...adolescence, Cher had started perfecting a signature she regarded as suitable for a star to sign in autograph books, and after the tenth grade she quit school forever. Around this time she had a first-and last-experience with a drug, Benzedrine. It left her "deadly opposed to drugs in every form, in every way." At 16 she left home rather than go on quarreling with her mother about "life-styles...
...quick step ahead of discovery. Somehow, he became a cop in 1966, despite a youthful arrest for illegal possession of liquor and an Army discharge for "behavioral disorders" after three AWOL incidents in seven months of service. He was with the state police from 1968 to 1972 and quit shortly after his squad-car windshield was apparently shot out from the inside when he was alone on patrol. His record also included the beating of a man he had arrested. After that, a brief stint as a tobacco salesman came and went amidst claims by his employers that a cache...
...aims of both Morgan and Andelin is to get women out of competition with men, and Andelin says that many of her graduates quit their jobs unless the extra income is essential. "There are sufficient men to be Presidents and not nearly enough women to be good mothers," she declares. But whatever the movement owes to the anxieties raised by women's lib, Andelin insists she is not antifeminist. She is simply concerned with making traditional marriage work. "I was even surprised when women's lib came on the scene," she says, "I thought Fascinating Womanhood was what...
Many observers predicted a power struggle after Muhammad's death. But last week all seemed to be harmony as Son Wallace, 41, was proclaimed his father's preordained successor. Wallace had twice quit the faith, only to repent; while he tends to matters spiritual, others will mind the money. And after Wallace's boring, rambling inaugural speech, it seemed that no one man would fill the Messenger's shoes...