Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dogs would be whisked to the AEC offices. At her suggestion, the AEC was reorganized in 1975 into two agencies and Ray then moved on to become Assistant Secretary of State for scientific affairs. When Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dodged her frequent requests for meetings, she quit after six frustrating months, declaring that trying to get a decision at State was "like slamming into a wall of marshmallows...
...West Bank, with intense economic aid, could theoretically absorb all the Palestinian refugees; nonetheless, the new entity should have the right to impose immigration quotas. Palestinians who fled what is now Israel after 1948 would receive compensation for land they were forced to abandon. So would Jews who quit their Arab homelands and settled in Israel. The size of the payments would be set by an international commission created for this purpose and be financed by a multinational consortium, which would include Israel and the Arab states...
...album's best track is "Hollywood." Look for this song to be blasting out of jukeboxes and car radios across America very soon. It quite literally has everything--a musical hook that won't quit; a lyric tag you won't be able to forget; strong, simple orchestration; and best of all, a sly and casual vocal with Scaggs fitting his voice to the lyrics as well as he's ever done. The song is fully within the "Silk Degrees" style, but it shows a sure touch, a confidence and sense of command that's nowhere in evidence...
...Snepp quit the agency in 1976. The CIA charges that he has both violated his secrecy agreement and gone back on a promise to Turner that he would submit his manuscript for clearance. Snepp apparently has broken no law-only his word...
Angry telegrams from stockholders flooded Kennecott's New York headquarters. Company switchboards lighted up with so many abusive telephone calls that four secretaries threatened to quit, complaining of the scatological remarks coming over the wires. One vice president, trying to persuade an irate California stockholder that the merger would prove beneficial in the long run, got the reply: "Sonny, I'm 84 years old, and I ain't waitin' around for the long run." Kennecott stock sells for about $22 a share, or $20 below book value...