Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June 17 have since scattered (see chart). Liddy was fired from the committee on June 28 when he refused to answer FBI questions. Sloan left the committee shortly after the Watergate breakin. John Mitchell, the former Attorney General, was head of the Nixon committee at the time but quit on July 1, ostensibly because his wife Martha wanted to get him out of politics. So far unexplained is the mystery surrounding Martha Mitchell's claim that only five days after the Watergate arrests, Steve King, now head of security for the Nixon committee, ripped a telephone off the wall...
...petition, which carried over 130 names, nominated Steele to the Board of Directors, a position-he-quit in 1971 to accept a job as manager of the Coop's Law School branch. Lawyers for the Coop disqualified over 40 of the names for violations of form, leaving Steele 11 short of the 100 signatures needed to place him on the ballot...
Steele decided to run again for the board last February, after he quit the Law School post to protest Coop hiring policies and pension changes...
West German politicians were off and railing against each other last week in a Wagnerian opening to their eight-week national election campaign. Chancellor Willy Brandt lost his temper at a press conference. Karl Schiller, who had resigned as Brandt's Economics and Finance Minister in June, quit the Social Democratic Party completely, accusing his Cabinet successor, Helmut Schmidt, of "demagogic downplaying" of inflation. Another former Finance Minister, Christian Social Union Leader Franz Josef Strauss, likened Brandt's views on price increases to those of a simple hausfrau...
...junior year at the University of Massachusetts, Erving quit school to sign a four-year, $500,000 contract with the A.B.A. Virginia Squires. After a brilliant rookie season, Erving decided that he was being grossly underpaid. Last April he signed a five-year contract with the N.B.A.'s Atlanta Hawks for an estimated $1,500,000, subsequently alleging that his Squire contract was invalid...