Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon may have a much less Machiavellian reason for wanting Agnew to quit. The Vice President's thrashings are scarcely contributing to the President's efforts to re-establish trust in his Administration in the wake of all the Watergate revelations. Agnew is a distraction and an embarrassment, and could be far worse if guilty. With access to the solid case against Agnew that the Justice Department believes it has, Nixon may well be convinced of Agnew's guilt and feel that he should be ousted sooner rather than later. Agnew may have privately resisted such suggestions...
...book at all out of the 1968 campaign. In 1972, he says, he knew "something fishy was going on" among the Republicans, but he was unaware of the Watergate secrets. After that story broke, he realized that any "inside" book he might do would be valueless. So he quit before the election and signed on with Hearst. Now, with his new notoriety, he claims to have a number of offers to write his inside book; he feels in demand again. This week he will be back in New York to see if Hearst editors share that view...
...company operates directly only some 750 of its 2,500 restaurants; the rest are run by holders of McDonald's franchises (the firm prefers to call them licenses). The hired help are mostly youths who work at a McDonald's for a few months and then quit; turnover in many outlets averages 100% every six months, in no small part because of the grueling tedium...
...Walt Disney in the World War I Red Cross Ambulance Corps, Kroc played piano in Chicago bars and restaurants and sold paper cups. His keyboard technique never earned him much of a living, but he sold enough cups to become Midwest sales manager for Lily-Tulip. In 1937 he quit, and for $ 10,000 bought exclusive sales rights to the Prince Castle Multimixer, a machine that could mix six milkshakes at once...
...some more, officials decided not to run the race at all. But Radcliffe and the Czechs agreed to race on their own, unofficially at least, to settle things. Radcliffe again jumped to a quick lead, and at 500 meters had a length margin. At that point the Czech team quit, and Radcliffe paddled home the rest of the way, an easy winner...