Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they ve about quit waving her back here at home...
Tanya's break came when Country Entrepreneur Billy Sherrill heard one of her "demo" 45s. Six weeks later she recorded Delta Dawn. Now when she walks along a Nashville street, cars slow down and people shout her name. She quit ninth grade a year ago with no regrets. Her future is country music. "We're here to stay," she says confidently...
...Most of all I like to be a professor of physics. Most administrative jobs require that you quit the primary job of being a professor. The Corporation job lets me do both...
...literal biblical interpretations. Last week four members of the church's 18-man mission-board staff resigned, partly in protest against "the oppressive use of power" in the denomination's hierarchy, headed by conservative President Jacob A.O. Preus. Two weeks ago, the staffs director, William H. Kohn, quit, and two more members will resign when they return from trips overseas. The departures from the staff, which administers all church mission activity at home and abroad, follow the spectacular split between the church's Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and "Seminex," the new, more liberal seminary in exile...
...Corporation maintains its consensus. According to Burr, "If you [the president] don't like the way a guy is doing things, you ask him to quit and he quits--or else he is powerless." Disagreement is tantamount to resignation, although "most of the issues lend themselves to some sort of middle level of decision," Calkins says...