Word: quit
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...Reagan threat from the right. But critics grumble that he has spent too much time traveling around the country to court conservatives instead of managing the overall campaign, that he lacks experience in presidential politics and has no organizing ability. Two weeks ago, Lee Nunn, a longtime Republican operative, quit as the campaign's director of organization and angrily accused Callaway of incompetence. Finance Chairman David Packard complains that fund raising is lagging and implies that one cause has been interference from Callaway. Says Packard: "Bo tried to tell me who to hire and who not to hire...
Still, the Boss was sufficiently uncertain of his musical future to quit school altogether. He enrolled in Ocean County College, showed up in what is still his standard costume-Fruit of the Loom undershirt, tight jeans, sneakers and leather jacket-and was soon invited round for a chat by one of the guidance staff. As Springsteen tells it, the counselor dropped the big question on him immediately. "You've got trouble at home, right...
Confronted by these myriad economic woes, Trudeau last week felt he had little choice but to opt for controls. Scarcely a month ago, popular Finance Minister John Turner focused public attention on the issue when he gave up trying to win support for voluntary wage-price restraints and quit the Liberal Cabinet. His replacement, former Energy Minister Donald Macdonald, was promptly handed two choices by ministry staffers: an outright 90-day freeze on all wages and prices, plus other rigid measures-the policy advocated by the Conservatives-or a program of selective controls combined with cutbacks in federal spending. Macdonald...
...theater records held by Jaws and The Godfather. The receipts have made Berry Gordy Jr., 45, the most powerful new director in the business. That power derives from his triple role as founder, chairman and 95% owner of Motown Industries. The company was founded in 1960, shortly after Gordy quit the Ford assembly line in Detroit. The ex-professional featherweight boxer started with $800 borrowed from his father, a Georgia-born plasterer. Motown grossed $48 million last year on the combined earnings of its record label, one of the country's largest music-publishing companies, an artists' management...
...over the four houses and ten-acre farm he owned to a friend and then went away. His neighbor Sue Greenberg put her name to a notarized document assigning her two children to a friend's care, and then she went away too. In Eugene, Surveyor Gerald Anderson quit his job and disappeared, as did Dan Staggs, a nurseryman from nearby Springfield. In all, somewhere between 21 and 26 Oregonians simply up and left everything they had after attending a recruiting meeting of a baffling new sect called HIM-Human Individual Metamorphosis. The sect's sales pitch...