Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's work habits have changed markedly, however. He once labored almost every night after dinner, as if sheer doggedness would solve the nation's problems. Now he is more likely to quit at tea time. Says Rosalynn Carter: "Around 4:30 Jimmy will come in and say, 'You ready to jog?' or 'Let's play tennis.' " A book or movie often takes up the evening hours until his 10:30 bedtime. He still begins work at dawn...
Morgan, who now earns an estimated $200,000 a year, appears to have no qualms about speaking out for the rights of corporations. But, then again, he fiercely resists any interference with private rights, whether they belong to blacks, companies-or, for that matter, to Charles Morgan. He quit the A.C.L.U.in 1976 because of the director's objections to his public political comments, writing: "I do not admit the right of any bureaucracy to grant or deny me my rights as a citizen." Most corporate lawyers with a big equal opportunity case on their hands would advise settlement...
...have rocketed. Rolls-Royces and $30,000 beds with built-in stereos are among the signs of the drug traders' conspicuous consumption. Also being purchased by traffickers: Colombia's judges, customs agents and police. The jail in the capital of the Guajira is so corrupted that the army has quit sending captured smugglers there. They routinely escape...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Luci Johnson Nugent, 31, younger daughter of late President Lyndon B. Johnson; from Patrick Nugent, 35, after twelve years of marriage, one son and three daughters; in Austin, Texas. The couple have been separated about a year; last November, Nugent quit his job as general manager of the Johnson family-owned radio station, KLBJ...
...central committee appears confident that no important churches will quit the W.C.C. in protest over its politicized approach. The greater danger is not a walkout but a gradual erosion of interest by disaffected members in the West...