Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buyers Needed. Last November, Burt Raynes, the man who took Rohr into the grand adventure, stepped aside as chief executive; three months later he also quit as chairman. His successor: Fred Garry, 54, a former General Electric engineer who was brought into the company as president in 1974. Besides withdrawing from futuristic projects, Garry plans to push for more military contracts and concentrate on aircraft-related business, which still accounts for two-thirds of Rohr's sales. The company builds pods and other jet parts for all major aircraft manufacturers and has good prospects of landing orders for developmental...
...athletes perfectly matched in skill yet diametrically opposed in style and temperament. Fuchs, the consummate technician who has spent most of the past two years in a training camp run by a government to which she is outspokenly committed. Schmidt, the power thrower who trains haphazardly and who recently quit the U.C.L.A. track team to protest the firing of the women's coach. The two have one thing in common. The loser will not complain about her coach-Schmidt because she does not have one, Fuchs because she is convinced that East German coaches are the world...
...competitions were more violent than those in the games today. The most popular event was the pankration, a combination of wrestling, judo and boxing in which contestants punched, slapped, kicked and-if they could get away with it-even bit or gouged each other until one or the other quit. In such a struggle, the authors reveal, death was a far more common risk than a pulled hamstring muscle...
...could not be identified. Said a spokesman: "We knew only that he had blond hair. When we called in her boy friend, who has blond hair, he denied the incident." But Donnelly insists that everyone knew his identity and that officials pushed her into accepting a deal: if she quit, Lewis would be allowed to graduate...
...armed with ample power and patronage as both national Democratic boss and Postmaster General, he masterminded an even bigger win for F.D.R. in 1936 against Alf Landon. After that, Old Pol Farley fell out with the patrician F.D.R. and his zealous New Dealer's, and in 1940 he quit his Cabinet and national party posts, suggesting that F.D.R.'s decision to run for an unprecedented third term had foreclosed his own ambitions for high elective office. Farley became head of Coca-Cola's foreign operations but never lost his taste for politics. He made plans...