Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...football coach when you consider that his only good running back flunked out last Spring, the Brown admissions department hasn't recruited enough talent to produce a winning team since 1959, and Brown has now lost 13 games in a row. That is, until you remember that if Jardine quit with his won-lost record, he couldn't find a job coaching field hockey at Pine Manor. At least Jardine used to have the consolation of looking forward to the annual battle for the cellar, the Brown-Penn game. But the Quakers scored more points last Saturday than any Penn...
...four Billed as the world's youngest ordained minister., he created a considerable star in California by performing his first Marriage only a year later. The documentary includes home movies of his early years plus coverage of his final year on the circuit. He first quit the business at 14, returning two years later when he went broke. The split between unbearable, so he perservered through a final year of fire and brimstone during which he supervised the making of this film...
...improper profits and thus amounts to another scandal from which the Democrats ought to be able to reap campaign benefits. But one facet of the highly complex situation looked like a clear-cut case of conflict of interest. Two high Government officials involved in the negotiations with the Russians quit their Agriculture Department jobs to take top positions with two U.S. exporting firms that had much to gain from the Soviet sales. Last week one of these officials, Clarence Palmby, an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture who became a vice president of Continental Grain Co. at far more than...
...only $8,000. So Nixdorf hopped on his motorbike and set out across the countryside to find a customer. Executives of a Ruhr Valley utility company were interested in what the brash fellow offered. After he finally built the machine, orders began coming in so fast that Nixdorf quit school and opened his own shop. Now he sells to 24 countries. Nixdorf-Computer sales last year were $99 million...
Waltz started out working for Fabriques de Tabac Réunies, a cigarette manufacturer that was owned by his mother's family. The firm was taken over in 1962 by Philip Morris. Waltz stayed on as an executive for seven years, then quit because of "serious disagreements" with his bosses. He had hoped to take a long skiing vacation, but the directors of SSIH, figuring that Waltz was just the decisive executive to meet the Japanese and U.S. competition, lured him off the Alpine slopes...