Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detail the purposes of the loans and gifts further than vaguely citing real estate purchases and financial responsibilities. Ronan in 1968 became the $75,000-a-year chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which owns and operates the New York City area public transit system. He quit last May when Rocky was no longer Governor. Apparently in the few days before Ronan was appointed by the Governors of New York and New Jersey as the unsalaried head of the Port Authority of those two states, Rockefeller canceled the Ronan loans, which then totaled $510,000, and paid...
After receiving notice, Stoeckel headed south with reassurances from his Canadian coach that he still had the ability to play professional ball. Although he says he "never entertained the thought" he could play in the NFL with his size, the 5 ft. 11 inch rollout-style quarterback won't quit his dream of returning to the CFL or possibly the World Football League, next year...
...been known to show zealous interest in their own welfare, and members of California's legislature can feather their nests with the best of them. In 1965 and 1970, the law makers enacted bills giving any legislator from a reapportioned district who was defeated - or simply decided to quit - a full retirement pension. There were no age restrictions: boy wonder and withered sage alike would be eligible...
Sagan was not ready to quit. He appealed to the FCC, asking for a reversal of the staff finding. During the summer, NBC lawyers in Washington began negotiating with Sagan's lawyers to give the publisher ah-time acceptable to him if he would drop his formal complaint...
...Mack Herron had carried a passport in his younger days, he could have listed his profession as loser. He majored in football at Kansas State, claimed that friction with his coach cost him a nomination for the Heisman Trophy, and quit school minus his degree. Pro offers were paltry, so Herron went to Canada. There he led the Canadian Football League in rushing but failed to awe the Winnipeg police. When they busted him for possession of marijuana, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers fired him. In 1973 he was back home in Chicago selling blue jeans for a living...