Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's going to be a battle royal," predicted one Republican official nine weeks ago when Mary Louise Smith quit as the G.O.P.'s national chairman. A wise forecast: the Republicans promptly began a raucous free-for-all-in the best brawling style of the Democrats-to decide who should get the job. Last week 161 members of the National Committee finally convened in Washington's Hilton Hotel and, after three ballots, settled on a compromise candidate: former U.S. Senator William Brock III of Tennessee...
...associates and acquaintances as autocratic, devious, dishonest, rapacious, egotistical, power mad, paranoid, a bully and a boor. Almost in the same breath, the same people call Felker a genius. "He's always been tough, restless and driven," says George A. Hirsch, now publisher of New Times, who quit as publisher of New York after four years of corporate karate with Clay. When New York was still struggling for survival, he adds, "Clay would pace the room, hyperventilating as he does when he's excited, and say, 'I think there's a great chance for us. Maybe...
...jobs that are less visible and glamorous than, say, Cabinet posts are being drained of competent people. That includes top civil service posts, where salaries have also been frozen, since no civil service job can pay more than an executive-level position. Employees have an added incentive to quit because retirement benefits keep growing, while salaries are frozen. In 1974, no fewer than 46.6% of eligible executives with frozen salaries chose early retirement. From 1969 to 1976, the Air Force lost 46% of its top scientists. For more than a year, the Social Security Administration has been unable to fill...
...power from Miki to Fukuda was greeted by L.D.P. leaders and their powerful business allies with a collective sigh of relief. Until last week there were fears that Miki would oppose Fukuda's candidacy and possibly lead his 42-man faction out of the party. But Miki quit without a fight when it became apparent that the party was united against...
...Harm. This was an astonishing exchange between members of the most successful cartel in world history, but by week's end tempers had cooled a bit. It became clear that the pricing rupture probably does not signal the end of OPEC. Yamani denied rumors that Saudi Arabia would quit the cartel, which would surely have meant its ruin. He also played down earlier threats that Saudi Arabia, already by far OPEC's biggest producer (8.4 million bbl. per day), would substantially expand output in order to undermine the higher prices of the opposing eleven. The radical Libyans...