Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provided a fascinating, behind-the-scenes glimpse of what law enforcement officials call a "boiler room" operation. Such telephone-sales scams are springing up in South Florida faster than authorities can shut them down. Testified James Bennett, a U.S. Oil and Gas salesman who quit because his conscience bothered him: "These were crass people. They'd sell their own mother. And if their mother was already sold, they'd go out and buy another mother and sell her at a profit...
...wonderful things, just as, for at least a while, Joe Morgan was a joyous sight. "I have never been this close to going away," he says quietly, but the proud manner in which he adds, "I can still hit the fastest pitches in our league," suggests he will not quit at 40 at that. If his batting average was .230 for the season, a burst of Morgan's old self in the closing month filled his ego to at least an inch above the brim. "I'm the best 5-ft. 8-in. baseball player in history...
Phillips built a justified following at Stratford for his venturesome direction of more than 30 productions. But after seven years there led to "utter exhaustion," he quit and, amid acrimony over his abrupt departure, resumed the roving life of a guest director. Friends predicted that he would find himself longing for a home, and they were right. Last month, in sedate, affluent London, Ont. (pop. 255,000), about 40 miles from Stratford, Phillips launched a new troupe that is as ambitious as its title: the Grand Theater Company...
Last April a fourth contra group, the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE), opened a second front along Nicaragua's border with Costa Rica. ARDE is a coalition of four organizations led by Eden Pastora, a Sandinista war hero who quit as a member of Nicaragua's government in 1981 and left the country because he thought the Sandinistas had "betrayed the revolution." Pastora's army has grown from 300 last April to about 2,000. Unlike the northern contras, who do not have any sizable base within Nicaragua, ARDE currently controls a 30-mile-long stretch of land...
...reason she quit, said Cunningham, 32, was to devote herself full time to Semper Corp., the venture-capital firm that she co-founded with former Bendix Chairman William Agee, 45, in June 1982, the same month the two were married. She said her job at Seagram, developing a strategic plan for its wine business, culminated last month with Seagram's announcement of plans to buy Coca-Cola's Wine Spectrum division for about $200 million. But Cunningham's efforts to take partial credit for the purchase were met with skepticism from some industry observers. Moreover, Seagram Chairman...