Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enter Schmücker, one of the few top German executives who once was a factory hand himself. The son of an assembly-line worker for Ford of Germany, Schmücker quit school at 16 to go into the plant himself and spent two decades working his way up through the ranks to the top job (with time out to serve as a Wehrmacht lieutenant on the Russian front). Shortly after becoming head of sales for Ford of Germany, he left to take over the tottering Rheinstahl Steel Company, and by designing and executing a major reorganization, made...
...duds. U.S. companies have sunk well after well off the northwest coast of Florida in a spot where the geological characteristics seemed encouraging; they all have been dry. By contrast, oil turns up in places that looked hopeless. In the North Sea, Phillips Petroleum was ready to quit after four failed wells. The fifth, sunk at the insistence of the Norwegian government, turned out to be a gusher...
...finals Harpo went out and bet a bundle on North Carolina, UNC-Charlotte, and for good measure, Nevada-Las Vegas. He had this strange feeling it would be a Carolina spring. The weekend came and went, his teams all won, and Harpo was a rich man. So did he quit? Do lemmings stop drowning? A lot more units this time (the semifinals) on both Carolinas versus Marquette and Nevada-Las Vegas. Marquette beats UNCC at the buzzer. Harpo swears the video-tape shows the Marquette center, Jerome Whitehead, quilty of offensive goal-tending. He screams it was a fix. Then...
Chase entered the Ames Courtroom without falling, something he used to do on NBC Saturday Night before he quit the show in October. Once in the courtroom, Chase sat down and opened a brown briefcase so that it obscured his face...
...have a feeling a lot of mothers will have to quit their jobs because of this," Davis added...