Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case to the public," says Gelb. "Lower level people in Washington see themselves as understudies. Each is trying to learn the part he hopes to play next, even though he knows that the odds are very much against his getting that future role. It is not really necessary to quit, go public and release classified documents to make your case. Would George Ball have needed to do that? No. His departure in itself would have had enormous impact. If you read his words literally, he felt very strongly. But he didn't take the next step...
...month when a dozen carriers began advertising $199 to $220 round-trip youth fares between the U.S. and Europe, lopping as much as $253 off regular peak-season "economy" prices. Now there are reports that the "big four"-Pan Am, TWA, Air Canada and Britain's BOAC-will quit IATA if the cartel does not approve even broader price reductions for people of all ages at its annual meeting this week in Montreal...
High Standards. His professional life has been less peripatetic. He joined LIFE in 1950, put in a year with the Time-Life News Service as a correspondent based in Seattle, and came to TIME in 1955. He soon quit because of "an eerie feeling I was in the wrong place," but returned in 1957. For five years he wrote the magazine's Education section. After surviving a libel suit arising from one of his stories, Shnayerson proposed a Law section for TIME.* He soon became the section's shepherd and one of the most respected legal affairs writers...
...highly trained men still active in the astronaut program have any hopes of getting a space flight in the next few years-nine on the three remaining Apollo shots and nine on the three Skylab missions, scheduled to begin in 1973. Many astronauts have already quit in disgust. The latest: Walt Cunningham, a member of the first manned Apollo flight, who coupled his resignation last week with a sharp blast at what he sees as growing U.S. indifference to space ventures. Within the astronaut ranks, there is even greater cause for complaint. The twelve remaining scientist-astronauts, recruited amid considerable...
...leaves Currier House at 11:45 a.m., just lucky enough to pass by a row of workmen who have quit work for lunch. All six of them immediately stop eating to stare at her, whistle, and make obscene remarks under their breaths. Since she is a brunette, they have no way of greeting her. If her hair were blond or red, they could have screamed, "Hay, blondie" or "Hey, red," and razzed her just that much more...