Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call on you to quit exciting your children. Stop this nonsense. Hurry, my children, hurry. Quickly. Quickly. Quickly. No more pain. No more pain. All they do is take a drink to go to sleep. That's what death is, sleep. Have trust. You have to step across. This world was not our home...
...Barre's reforms were put forward as nonnegotiable, and he has refused to respond to union outcries. To be sure, the government has offered a variety of benefits to ease the pain: retraining programs, retirement at age 55, and severance pay of $11,700 for workers who quit voluntarily. The government has also tried to attract new industries to the areas where layoffs have been most severe...
...Washington had any quick-fix cures to offer, they were not apparent. In the Senate, a group of Administration critics led by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum seemed content simply to badger and goad Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, variously recommending that he either quit or be fired as ineffectual. One of Schlesinger's biggest embarrassments: DOE'S strategic petroleum reserve, which is supposed to be available in times of severe shortage but is years behind schedule and contains less than a week's worth of oil. Pumps to get the crude back out of the huge underground Louisiana...
Bukovsky made one of his first decisions at the age of ten. He quit the Young Pioneers, the Soviet equivalent of the Cub Scouts. He had been asked to reprimand another boy, did it blisteringly well, felt ashamed of himself and decided that "I couldn't and wouldn't play this idiotic role any longer." At 14 he refused to join the Komsomol, and at 16 he was running with a harmless group of youthful Pimpernels who sympathized with the Hungarian uprising...
...Iran's last revolutionary leader, Mohammed Mossadegh. Stung by Khomeini's diatribe, Bazargan went to Qum with an offer to resign. After some deliberation, Khomeini refused the resignation and pledged greater support for the government. But if that promise was not kept and Bazargan were to quit, authority in Iran would apparently rest solely with the Komiteh, the mullahs and other fervent Shi'ites whose grab for power has literally pulled the Persian rug out from under Bazargan's regime...