Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although she was furious at Reagan's aides, who, she complained to associates, did not have the courage to ask her to quit, Burford remained steadfastly loyal to the President. "I love that guy," she said, "and I'd be proud to serve him any place." The affection was mutual. Notoriously reluctant to cut loose loyal aides in distress, Reagan continued to insist in his press conference on Friday that Burford was a martyr hounded to resign by environmental activists and a scandal-hungry press. He called her "a far bigger person than those who have been sniping...
...reading the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago, and Paul Craig Roberts, Secretary of Reagan's supply-side theorists who quit as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, wrote that "Ronald Reagan could have made a difference to the nation's circle." if his advisers had not dropped him from the policymaking circle." How's that for investing in collapse...
...five years Dilger used the savings to further refine the cannon, yet still managed to turn back a surplus of $124 million that had been allocated for the GAU8 program. He is proud. Dilger's reward? No promotion. A new, unattractive desk job. In 1980, colleagues say, he quit the service in disgust. Today Bob Dilger, 49, raises corn and cattle on a farm outside Xenia, Ohio...
Soon after he quit a month ago, however, Kenny supplied racy recollections to Britain's biggest daily, Rupert Murdoch's sensational tabloid, the Sun (circ. 4.2 million), for the unprincely sum of about $2,000. The first installment, splashed across two pages last week, purported to describe the "amorous antics" of the Queen's second son, Prince Andrew, 23, including one putative tryst in a gallery in Windsor Castle hung with portraits of his royal ancestors. Kenny was quoted as telling the Sun: "[Andrew's] dates were always young and fanciable. He was so sure...
...plane trips, but the company resisted giving gifts to all comers. Says Craig Koch, a Hertz general manager: "We made an honest attempt not to get into the premium thing and to let some of our market share go for three or four months. But Avis wouldn't quit." When Avis claimed that its market share had risen six points, to 29%, Hertz jumped in, adding merchandise prizes to its travel bonuses. A customer who rents a Hertz car 40 times for four days or longer, for example, will build up enough credits to earn all of the following...