Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employee bureaucracy, and assigned Anthony Solomon, 58, an economist and State Department veteran, as Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, to run daily international operations. That leaves Blumenthal free to concentrate on the big-bang issues of inflation, taxes and the dollar-and have at least some chance to quit the office after the twelve-hour days that he considers the optimum for efficiency. He carefully guards his weekends as private times, and sometimes leaves on a quick vacation without revealing his destination to anyone except his secretary...
...winning smashes like Rocky and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, United Artists is Hollywood's most successful film producer. But after closing the books on their best year ever, U.A.'s entire brain trust, including Chairman Arthur Krim and President Eric Pleskow, up and quit...
...people look upon any setback as the end. They're always looking for the benediction rather than the invocation. Most of us have enough problems so that almost any day we could fold up and say: 'I've had it.' But you can't quit. That isn't the way our country was built...
...dramatically, with the Communists denouncing their Socialist partners. On the other, the faltering government of Premier Raymond Barre was faced with a sharpening hostility between supporters of Barre's boss, President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, who had been Premier himself before he quit to reorganize the Gaullist party. What was once anticipated to be a clear-cut duel between left and right in the March parliamentary elections had degenerated to a four-sided political brawl. Unlike their Italian brethren, who were surging forward, France's Communists were spewing gall...
...Education School, put out a newsletter in an effort to organize University clerical workers, but the response was discouraging and they gave up. Then at a Women's Action Project convention in Boston in the spring of 1972, they heard other women with similar complaints. Nussbaum and Cassedy quit their jobs and joined eight other Boston office workers to lay the foundations for 9to5, Boston's first and only organization for women office workers. From those ten people handing out their monthly newsletter at subway exits, 9to5 has grown into a mass membership organization that has visibly affected the lives...