Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week the financial chairman, David Packard, resigned, perhaps partly because of criticism of his failure to organize a direct-mail fund-raising drive. He was the second high official to quit the Ford campaign in recent weeks...
...Reactions. In three years he leaped over a city-roomful of old Times hands to become chief New York political reporter. Reeves also aroused enough jealousies to keep him from climbing further, so he quit in 1971 and became a one-man journalistic conglomerate. He wrote for both Harper's and New York, lectured at a local university, did consulting work for the Ford Foundation, was a host for a local TV talk show and took on a syndicated radio program-a regimen that brought him $75,000 a year...
Ford's threat prompted team members to call a meeting with the coach the day after the game, and some members of the team were prepared to quit the team if Ford followed through on the threat...
...dress rehearsal for World War II. In the postwar years, Franco confounded his numerous critics by taming a naturally rebellious nation that had spawned anarchy and by bringing Spanish society into the modern industrial age (see following story). Yet, like most dictators, he did not know when to quit. Most of his countrymen thus accept his demise as long overdue. Only among the faithful-the Civil War veterans, the rightist youth, the shopkeepers who long ago rallied to the Falange-is there a genuine outpouring of emotion for the man who has been the only leader that 70% of Spain...
Stash says that skating took hold of him "like a bug." Starting in 1969, he worked with the local pro at the rink. As one would expect, the going was frustrating and the progress was slow. "I probably should have quit, but I really didn't know any better," he says...