Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years that he said a final farewell to a member of his family. A little more than a year after Martin Jr. was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, King's younger son, the Rev. A.D. Williams King, drowned in a swimming pool. "I'm not gonna quit and I'm not gonna be stopped," said "Daddy" King at the funeral. "We've got to carry on." Then, as he gazed at his wife's white casket he added softly, "So, Bunch, I'm coming on up home. I'll be home almost...
Patrick Flores, 44. He tried to quit school twice but returned at his parents' urging. In 1970 Flores, son of a migrant worker, became the first Mexican American to be named a Roman Catholic bishop. One of nine children, he grew up near Houston, graduated from St. Mary's Seminary there, was ordained...
...Ross Perot, 44. "Making money per se never really interested me," insists the clean-cut mule trader's son from Texarkana, Texas, who quit a salesman's job at IBM in 1962, worked briefly as a data processing manager for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, then set up the Dallas computer software firm of Electronic Data Systems with $1,000. By 1970 his assets had soared to as much as $1.5 billion. He promptly took an oceanic bath as the computer market went stale (in a single day the value of his stocks dropped $376 million), next scuttled tens...
Graduates are obliged to spend ten years working in the civil service. If an Enarque decides to quit before his term is up, he must pay the government the equivalent of two years of his current annual salary. Few leave - although private firms hunting for prized E.N.A. alumni often offer to pay the penalty...
...police, reluctant to admit that they had bungled horribly, pressed the charges to the bitter end, perhaps because the second complainant was none other than the wife of the arresting officer, a patrolman with a penchant for arresting people on such ridiculous pretexts as breaking tree branches. I quit; sold stereos for a month; worked on a cigarette promotion handing out sample packs to promote national cancer week; got into law school; found a summer job with a PR firm; finally moved into an apartment; and had my car stolen. But I can't help thinking that a peculiar commencement...