Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italy is in the deepest trouble. Plagued by strikes and absenteeism, industrial production is running 3% lower than last year, while prices are 5% higher. Fiat, the automaker, has placed 8,000 workers on a short week; tiremaking Pirelli is offering workers in the Milan area cash gifts to quit. Zanussi, Italy's biggest electric-appliance manufacturer, plans to lay off 9,420 by year's end. Refrigerator producers reckon that the price of one of their popular models in the U.S. will rise from $89 to $109. The Italian bourse is at a 15-year...
...Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home began the debate by urging that Britain rejoin Europe (after 413 years, since the English quit Calais), Laborites shouted "No! No! No!" and stabbed their fingers in his direction. To pro-Marketeers, the main point was that, as the London Economist put it, "Europe cannot be fashioned against British interests once Britain is in." The antiMarket speakers said that the cost of joining was too high-in sovereignty yielded to bureaucrats in Brussels, in a threat to the British way of life, and in jobs lost to cheaper continental labor...
...friend of mine was a superjock at Yale, but in his senior year he quit the varsity ice-hockey team. He organized a hockey team where you had to have a beard to play. He challenged Rhode Island School of Design to a game, and the teams skated to the middle of the hockey rink carrying their jerseys. They made a big pile up there, then chose up sides. That was beautiful. These were friendly, cheerful people and they were doing amusing things. Their goal was to delight themselves, not to defeat each other...
...platform that called for the cessation of the coddling of criminals and a reduction of expenditures. As governor, Reagan slashed the prison system's budget so severely that most of the upper echelon correctional officials resigned. As he did with the state college system when many of its administrators quit in protest over budget cuts, Reagan filled these vacated slots in the Department of Corrections with men who were more willing to accept his dictates and shared his political prejudices...
...nothing out of the ordinary. He grew up in an intellectual Edwardian family--his father was headmaster of the school which he attended. He went to Oxford, and after Oxford had a series of jobs before becoming a sub-editor of the London Times. After his first novel, he quit the Times and devoted his life to writing. The facts of his life aren't as important, of course, as the way Greene remembers or reacts to them, and the way the young Greene responded to them. For example: 'The first thing I remember is sitting in a pram...