Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate, chiefly to demonstrate his home-state strength as a vote getter and enhance his prospects for re-election this year to the Senate. Thus, even before the first primary, the Democrats have lost two of their eleven declared candidates: Bentsen and North Carolina's Terry Sanford, who quit last month...
Larsen, 36, a former TIME associate editor, joined the magazine more than a year after it was founded by George A. Hirsch, 41, who had quit as publisher of New York magazine in a dispute with Editor Clay Felker. Hirsch assembled a staff of contributors that read like a Who's Who of liberal and "new" journalism: Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Jack Newfield, Mike Royko, Dick Schaap and other print celebrities. That was a mistake. When they found the time to produce, the results were too often lightly researched, ill-organized and self-indulgent...
What finally caused Moynihan to resign, friends say, was a column by New York Timesman James Reston that said "Messrs. Ford and Kissinger support him in public and deplore him in private." Moynihan figured that Kissinger fed that directly to Reston. The day after the column appeared, Moynihan quit. His critics believe he had been looking for just such an excuse...
Good Man. As soon as Moynihan quit, Ronald Reagan started making him a campaign issue. Isn't it too bad, Reagan told an audience in southern Florida, that the Administration could not keep such a good man? "He was the first ambassador saying a lot of things to those jokers up there that should be said." However, no one emerged from the Moynihan affair with very much credit. The ambassador appeared to be excessively petulant. Kissinger looked like a man who had undermined a valuable if hard-to-handle ambassador. And the President, still wounded by the recent resignation...
...middle-management engineers in General Electric's nuclear energy division, Gregory Minor, 38, Richard Hubbard, 38, and Dale Bridenbaugh, 44, have spent most of their professional lives working to build and promote nuclear power plants. Last week they suddenly quit their well-paid jobs at GE's installation at San Jose, Calif. Calling in the press, they announced plans to work full time for a referendum on the ballot in the California June primary that would curb the construction of new nuclear power reactors in the state. Said Minor in his letter of resignation: "Nuclear reactors and nuclear...