Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter got into the act by observing at his press conference that sums such as those reported by Chavez "would be highly inflationary - contrary to my [anti-inflation] policy." Indeed, Shevchenko may have been able to finance his affairs himself: he received $78,000 in severance when he quit his U.N. post and could have saved a substantial amount from his $87,000 annual U.N. salary...
...revolution has led to quick check-outs by several firms that had hoped to capture a share of the supermarket automation field. After investing heavily in research and marketing studies, General Electric, RCA, Singer, Bunker Ramo and Pitney-Bowes all chose to cut their losses and quit. Now even Sperry Rand, which had bought out RCA's licenses, has withdrawn...
...they sold his very best friend, Bernie Carbo--who was also the best pinch-hitter on the bench--to Cleveland. The Red Sox got nothing but money in exchange for Bernie Carbo, the co-spaceman who was known as one of the best pinch-hitters in baseball. Lee quit the team for three days in protest. "It's time we started talking about the earth," he said upon returning...
Former colleagues remember Agee, now 43, as a zealous anti-Communist when he joined the CIA after graduating from Notre Dame in 1956. He spent twelve years as an undercover operative in several Central and South American countries, became disillusioned by the CIA's methods and quit...
That would inflame an already tense ecumenical situation. The Salvation Army has quit the W.C.C., at least temporarily, to protest the grant. There has been an "enormous disturbance" in British churches, says one Executive Committee member. As for West Germany?which now provides 42% of the budget for the financially pressed W.C.C.?official protests are muted, but one top churchman reports "bitter reaction in our churches." At the recent meeting of the world's Anglican bishops, a routine W.C.C. support motion got through only with an antiviolence rider attached. In the U.S., important elements in such W.C.C. member groups...