Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outside the factory or office. A few firms, including Cummins Engine and Prudential Insurance, have detached people to do good works not connected with their jobs, but the programs tend to be informal and restricted to projects chosen by management. Employees who want to do something else have to quit or take an unpaid leave...
...afflict a rock star if he is not careful. Beginning in 1965, Brian could no longer find any satisfaction in sunny days, surfing and driving. He seemed to his friends to be lost and shattered, obviously convinced that the world was too much to cope with. Accordingly, Brian quit public life. Though he continued to make recordings (including the cleverly innovative Pet Sounds), he sometimes would not come out of his Bel Air house for six months at a stretch. Among other things, he erected a tent that filled his living room (for top-secret Beach Boy pow-wows...
...National Football League), but when training camp opened last month, he pronounced himself unhappy with his contract and left the team. Meanwhile, Defensive End Phil Olsen, the team's No. I draft choice last year, announced that he had discovered a loophole in his contract; he quit the Patriots and joined the Los Angeles Rams. Soon after that, Linebacker John Bramlett, the team's Most Valuable Player last season, was unexpectedly placed on waivers by Patriot Coach John Mazur. The reason: Bramlett was supposedly lazy...
...like? That's your problem," he says. When his assistant director threatened to quit, Van Peebles reasoned with him in typically Sweetback fashion: he began banging his head on the floor. Even the challenge stamped on his body flaunts his cool: above a broken blue stripe tattooed around his neck is the inscription "Cut along the dotted line...
...heart attack suffered while conducting Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice; in Athens. Cleva's career got off to an auspicious start when the maestro who was scheduled to lead a 1920 performance in Ravenna, Italy, of Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West suddenly quit; the opera manager asked where he could find a substitute at the last minute. "Here's your man," said Puccini, pointing to 18-year-old Cleva, who had been conducting during rehearsals. Cleva eventually became a stalwart of the Met's Italian repertory...