Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights and my respect for the Senate." Conceding that he had been sorely troubled by his wife's job, he later hinted to newsmen that he had asked her to resign. A family friend put it more bluntly: "He has given her an ultimatum." Would she quit? Marion "wants time, a quiet time, to think about her position," said Marvin Frankel, a top executive at Ruder & Finn, her public relations firm...
...their lawyers to advise them. The directors knew that the Pittsburgh business community believed overwhelmingly that top management would have to go, if only as a symbolic act. On the other hand, they also valued Dorsey highly as a gifted executive, and knew that he had vowed not to quit. Nonetheless, a group of three directors closely identified with the Mellon interests wanted, as one family source put it, "to clear the air as quickly as possible...
...free man." But he energetically pursued his task, breaking Ireland's final constitutional link to Britain with the repeal of the External Relations Act. Costello lost the prime ministership to De Valera in 1951, won it back in 1954, lost it again in 1957 and quit politics...
...Cambridge, it is even higher: 12.8 per cent, compared to 11.4, for example, in the rest of the Boston metropolitan area. Harvard graduates can't collect unemployment compensation unless they have held a local job, their employer contributed to the state unemployment insurance fund, and they did not quit but were fired. Even then, the amount of unemployment money will probably be small...
...Them" again. The most rebellious thing Brayton ever did was to hint at threatening to quit when he was on Winston-Salem. Soon afterwards he was called up to Bristol. But always the paranoid, he worries that "They" only wanted to appease...