Word: quit
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...which over the years makes its errors pale in comparison. For example, the CIA's development of effective satellite reconnaissance has protected this nation while it seeks arms limitations agreements and saves billions that would otherwise be spent on unneeded weapons. It is time for Congress to quit pulling up all the vegetables in the intelligence garden to see if the roots are rotten...
...named the new American Ambassador to the U.N. three months ago, some diplomats braced themselves for the arrival of a real ogre. It was Moynihan, after all, who, having just wound up a two-year tour as U.S. Ambassador to India, wrote a controversial article urging the U.S. to quit kowtowing to the Third World. Instead of apologizing for America's "imperfect democracy," he said, the U.S. should take a tough stand toward the new nations, especially their tendency to band together with the Communist countries in anti-Western positions...
...status of the others: three are seminary teachers; two are parish assistants; one quit parish work because the lay board did not back her, had a baby, and is now job hunting; one is a counselor and parish assistant; one works with women prisoners; one runs a small religious order and one has become a Methodist minister...
...group in Finley's operation that does end up losing is his front-office staff?the smallest in baseball, and probably the most overworked. In 15 years, Finley's autocratic rule has used up five scouting directors, six farm directors (last week the seventh, John Claiborne, quit in disgust), ten publicity managers and 16 broadcasters. He sends the staff scurrying with round-the-clock calls?there is even a telephone in the men's room (located a safe distance from the clubhouse)?and supervises everything from bat orders for the players to food in the press room. Frank Ciensczyk...
...After being dropped north of the Arctic Circle, they drifted on rubber rafts down the Noatak River to Kotzebue Sound in two weeks. "It was the most relaxing trip I've ever made," said the organizer, Andy Williams, who claims to have read War and Peace and quit smoking en route...