Word: quit
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Through tax incentives and guarantees, South Korea and Taiwan have encouraged local investors to support labor-intensive industries that earn foreign exchange. Two years ago, the lure of higher income prompted Han Chang Soo to quit a secure $120-a-month job with the Korean tax department. He raised $70,000, rented a small plant in Seoul, hired 20 workers, bought some used machinery and began manufacturing large-headed roofing nails; this year his sales-mostly exports to the U.S. -will reach...
...would be done to the priceless paintings in the room where he was shooting. Similar incidents sent the budget soaring, giving an extra twist to the pressures Kubrick felt. Nerves produced a rash on his hands that did not disappear until the film was wrapped, and though he had quit smoking, he started cadging cigarettes...
DELORES DELUXE wiggles her way down the bar runway, wearing nothing but a large pair of earrings and a broad grin. Later, lounging in her dressing room with her co-workers she says she'd quit, but she has nothing else to do. "You know why we do these things? Because we're oppressed. It's this system; there has to be a change in this system. Then we wouldn't have to do this." The women beside her all nod in agreement...
...incident that Peretz's critics say illustrates the effects of his pro-Israeli convictions centered around the resignation of Stanley Karnow '45, foreign editor of The New Republic for two years, who quit last May. Things "came to a head," Karnow recalls, a day or two before the deadline of the May 24 issue, when President Ford announced that the United States had retaken the freighter Mayaguez after Cambodia had seized it. Karnow then wrote a two-paragraph editorial, that was mildly critical of U.S. policy and said that the military operation was staged "to rescue U.S. honor in wake...
...next head to roll at The New Republic was the executive editor's. Peretz was reading Time magazine in his office the week after Karnow quit, he recalls. An article on the events at The New Republic quoted some remarks by Walter Pincus, the executive editor, who specialized in articles on Watergate. (A "Watergate obsessive," Peretz says.) Time reported that Pincus was disconsolate and would quit soon. Pincus told Time that Peretz was "a guy on an ego trip who doesn't know where he wants to go." That was enough for Peretz. As he recalls, he put down...