Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given up hope of capping his career with a new Middle East breakthrough. Most important, the Secretary of State's great desire that a new Strategic Arms Limitation treaty with the Soviets could be signed this year is in grave jeopardy. Rumors swirl in Washington that he may quit in a couple of months. Says one of his aides: "Henry feels that the walls are closing...
Until the very last moment, Daniel Patrick Moynihan claims, he did not know whether he would quit as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. "I made up my mind 30 times," he said. "It's like Mark Twain said: 'Giving up smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.' " Last week Moynihan finally made up his mind: he was resigning...
...week-long will-she-or-won't-she drama was over. Citing what she described as "unjustifiable criticism" leveled at her husband, New York's Senator Jacob Javits, Marion Javits quit her $67,500-a-year job as a public relations consultant for Iran's national airline. Her decision obviously relieved the Senator, who is both a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a leading advocate of U.S. support for Israel. But some feminists, among them Ms. magazine's Gloria Steinem, thought that the conflict-of-interest problem in the Javits household might...
...there is an eminence grise among living American artists, that man is Clyfford Still. The history of abstract expressionism, the movement that did most to coalesce the once frail identity of American art, is unimaginable without his vast Wagnerian canvases. But 15 years have passed since Still quit Manhattan in disgust for a ten-acre farm in Westminster, Md., and during that time his execrations of the "arrogant farce" of the art world-its neuroses, its museums, its critics, and their failure to come to grips with his work-have not ceased to be heard. He is the Coriolanus...
...strategy for propelling Volkswagen beyond the Beetle was laid out by the company's former managing director, Rudolf Leiding, who launched a $1 billion program to design new models in the early 1970s. When Leiding quit under fire a year ago, he was replaced by Schmücker, 54, a 30-year veteran of Ford's European operation. One of Schmücker's first moves at Volkswagen was to offer up to $6,000 tax-free to workers who would quit. Some 24,000, or 17% of the company's German work force, accepted. That...