Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's top budget officials at the White House. The Defense Secretary was discouraged to find that Ford's men were insisting on sharp cuts by the Pentagon. As the talks continued, Schlesinger turned testy. He also brought up another matter: one of his aides, Robert Ellsworth, wanted to quit as head of the Pentagon's International Security Affairs Agency because he felt the State Department was ignoring his advice. Schlesinger suggested making Ellsworth a Deputy Secretary of Defense, which would place him on an equal, No. 2 ranking with the Pentagon's William Clements. Ford, who had already offered...
When Robert Sarnoff succeeded his father as head of RCA Corp. in 1968, the family's continued dominance over the diversified electronics giant seemed all but assured. Last week, though, "Bobby" Sarnoff abruptly quit as chief executive because directors would not give him a raise. That left RCA without a Sarnoff at its head for the first time in its 45 years of existence. In a move that stunned New York's business community, RCA announced that Sarnoff, at the age of 57, also would step down as chairman, and even as a director...
...think it was a combination of these reasons," he said. The Crimson mentor added that he has no reason to believe that the decision of all three to quit was anything but coincidental...
Junior Walter 'Doc' Hines and sophomores Roosevelt Cox and Roland Smart quit the varsity basketball team yesterday, shattering Crimson hopes to capture the Ivy League hoop crown this year...
Reeves seems to enjoy thumping them too much to quit, but his book exudes a pessimism about politicians as sour as the west wind from Jersey City. Like television, McDonald's restaurants and much else in American life, Reeves laments, electoral politics nowadayses geared less toward producing quality than ensuring blandness. He sees fewer capable leaders-even fewer gifted scalawags-and more dull, "least objectionable" alternatives: more Jerry Fords. Says Reeves: "I have seen the future, and it scares the hell...