Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days. There was no more celebrated stock picker than Shanghai-born, Boston-educated Gerald Tsai Jr., who pondered the charts, played his hunches and took long shots-many of which paid off. Time and the market have not been kind to Tsai. Last week, after several losing years, he quit as president of Tsai Management & Research Corp., which he founded...
...Your cover story on Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris [Jan. 22] conveys the false impression that in 1966 I suggested that Brando should quit acting; it includes the sentence "Pauline Kael's dismissal notwithstanding, Brando's colleagues by and large have defended him." My way of dismissing him was to write about him in 1966 as "the most exciting American actor on the screen." to vote for him as best actor of 1967 for Reflections in a Golden Eye. to review him in The New Yorker. Feb. 10. 1968. as "our greatest actor," and, again. March...
...Najeeb Halaby, 57, left Pan American World Airways last year after the company had suffered more than $100 million in losses during his 27-month leadership. "I remember calling my 17-year-old son at school and telling him that I had quit," says Halaby. "His first reaction was, 'Welcome back to civilization.' " Halaby reacquainted himself with civilization by taking three weeks off to play golf and tennis. Then he formed a $1,000,000 venture-capital company based in Hong Kong that will make investments in engineering, construction, electronics and other projects in Southeast Asia...
Norris has long held a grudge against IBM. Control Data, founded in 1957 by Norris and seven other computer engineers who quit Sperry Rand Corp., rose to prominence by concentrating on a part of the market that IBM did not dominate: the large computer used mainly in scientific research. In 1963, Norris' engineers came up with the biggest "number cruncher" of all, the 6600. But before Control Data could put it on the market, IBM announced that it would introduce a giant computer of its own, the System 360 Model 90. Such is the magic...
During Harrison's first season, Harvey worked as a scout and occasionally helped out in practice. The next year in 1969-1970, he got a break when the freshman basketball coach quit at mid-season. Harvey moved in and has held the job ever since...