Word: quit
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...definition of "antistate activities" was broadened. In addition parliament passed several measures that would apply during a 29-month "transition" period. It set the official work week at 48 hours, eliminating the free Saturdays won by Solidarity. It also gave the government the right to force people who quit their jobs to take new employment for up to a year at the lowest legal wage. The Sejm had intended to draw up new regulations giving the authorities freer rein to make arrests. But Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, issued a letter of protest, reminding the authorities...
...bilateral ties are to remain strong, the U.S. will have to realize that certain set notions about Japan must also change. Ambassador Mansfield contends: "We ought to quit leaning on the Japanese and get back to our own old time religion" of producing competitive, quality products with pride. The Japanese will also have to learn that a position of global power brings added responsibilities. Long considered the junior partner in the Western alliance, Japan may finally be ready for full membership. -By John Kohan. Reported by Carol Honsa/Washington and Edwin M. Relngold/Tokyo
...QUIT Harvard seven years ago after completing my freshman year to become a fashion model I did so to escape the entire mental process. The monumental intellectual confidence which I'd towed into the Yard at the beginning of Freshman Week had flaked chipped and then crumbled to dust during the following months Rejection from a freshman seminar encounters with disdainful professors mindboggling conversations with Presidential scholars along with the first C-plus of my life had the combined effect of linking thinking and misery together in my mind...
...country. The offer was significant because all four are prominent Nicaraguans who had been active in the insurrection against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, were once colleagues of the Sandinistas and today live in exile. The men are Arturo Cruz, the former junta member and Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington who quit in November 1981; Alfredo César, who like Cruz was once head of the central bank, and two other former government officials, Leonel Poveda and Angel Navarro. Though they are not affiliated with the anti-Sandinista guerrilla movements and in fact are calling for a "nonviolent" settlement...
...still find adherents. Kafka's work is so specific on the surface, and so cryptic underneath, that it can serve any interpreter. His admirers and detractors "agree on only one point: Kafka "was the neurotic artist personified. He despised his work as an insurance clerk but would not quit. He shied from sentiment as a "fatness of feeling" and recoiled from sex: "Coitus is the punishment for the happiness of being together." He could write only about what he knew, and what he knew were his dreams. "My talent for portraying my inner life," he noted, "has thrust...