Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slater started as an accountant with Leyland Motors. In 1964 he bought a real estate company and, together with a partner, Peter Walker, renamed it Slater, Walker Securities. They sold its shares to the public and started acquiring companies. (Walker quit the firm two years ago to become Britain's Minister for the Environment.) Today Jim Slater is looking into takeovers of firms in most Common Market countries. His stake in Canadian industry is worth $50 million. He regards Canada as a test area for his planned move into takeovers...
...Others tell them to try to discriminate: avoid iceberg lettuce but purchase romaine, most of which is not grown in California. "I couldn't figure out which lettuce was O.K. and which wasn't," says Connie Zonka, who works for Columbia College in Chicago. "So I just quit buying it-and we like lettuce a lot. I get out of it by substituting a whole lot of cabbage...
...rely on the shaky ankles and ailing back of Steve Hall a good blocking fullback who saw more time in the last year, or two lesser knowns JV veteran Marc Mayberg and sophomore Phil Allen. Semor Chuck Krohn a fullback who started the last four games in '71 has quit the team...
...going to quit after the California primary, but stayed on because McCarhy was all we had left. After California I didn't feel any justification in saying that, with Bobby Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy, one was beer than the other, In retrospect, I'm sorry that Kennedy didn't win and get to be president, though I didn't like how he behaved in the campaign...
...already under way way?pressed by the Europeans and resisted by the Americans and Australians?to cut down on the number of swimming events (and thus medals) on the theory that the skills required are repetitive. Said Spitz before the games: "I want to win at Munich and then quit. I never swam for glory, only the satisfaction of being recognized as the best in the world." Beyond all doubt, he has achieved that goal...