Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman, to resign if he or she is responsible for a pregnancy. They add that the issue is, well, academic. Since the three service academies first admitted women in early 1976, only one woman has resigned-from the Air Force Academy-because she was expecting a baby. Two men quit the Naval Academy this year to marry their pregnant fiancees-who were not midshipmen. (The Navy has yet to adopt the term midshipwoman for the distaff side...
...areas of concern about U.S. education, only one is showing some improvement. The dropout, who was a great worry in the alienated, rebellious 1960s, is no longer so common. The percentage of high school students who quit before g graduation has fallen to about 25%, down from the dropout rates of 1960 (31%) and 1950 (37%). At the same time, about 45% of those who do graduate now go on to college, up from 33% in 1960?though that is probably less a measure of scholastic excellence than a reflection of the increase in available places in two-and four...
...pressure to win is a nice kind of pressure," he explains. "When you're losing you come in with a negative kind of pressure...players quit early...they don't give themselves a chance...
...over," he explains. "I never had any qualms about playing basketball, I just did what I thought was best at the time. Right now I want to play basketball and I'm just gonna keep playing until...well, I'm not sure when. Then I'll just quit or go someplace far, far away...
...likes increases in tax rates," admitted Republican Representative William Ketchum of California. "But it is time that Congress quit fooling people. There is no free lunch...