Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several construction union leaders have urged AFL-CIO President George Meany to quit President Nixon's 15-man labor-industry-public Pay Board, which Monday ordered a general 5.5 per cent limit on future pay hikes...
...Williams, a taciturn, strong-minded research engineer, quit his job at Chrysler Corp. and set out to prove that the auto engine of the future would be a gas turbine. With $3,000, he founded Williams Research Corp. in Walled Lake, Mich. Though the company quickly grew (it has annual sales of about $10 million), customers wanted the small turbines for light airplanes, not cars. Detroit continued to favor the conventional internal combustion engine...
Princeton lost its two big men within the past week (6-8 Bill Daake quit the team and 6-8 Bill Kapler underwent surgery) but with Brian Taylor and Ted Manakas in the backcourt, the Tigers are also contenders...
Picasso still owns the Château de Boisgeloup near Gisors, which he bought in 1931; a sumptuous Belie Epoque villa at Cannes, La Californie (which he quit in pique when a real estate developer put apartment blocks on the land below the garden, ruining the view); and the enormous castle of Vauvenargues on the north flank of the hill that Cézanne often painted, Mont St.-Victoire. But Mougins has become his cloister. "He doesn't travel any more. He hardly even goes into Cannes
...people into the 21st century." In the effort, he stirred considerable acrimony among board members last November by going over their heads and bravely calling for an end to fixed commission rates on large trades. Last week, to no one's great surprise, Haack said that he will quit his $125,000-a-year job when his five-year term ends next July...