Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in London this winter, things have not been much better. Fast-moving Freelance Photographer Mauro Carraro, 23, who quit hunting crime shots 18 months ago to concentrate on the much more profitable ambushing of royals, finally got a picture of Andrew that was good enough for the Mirror's front page. Carraro hustles hard for his art and the $25,000 or so a year it brings him. During one brief period this winter he broke off the chase for Koo at the Queen's retreat at Sandringham and flew to Switzerland, where Koo was rumored to be skiing...
Stella started making prints in the late '60s, and if he had quit by, say, 1975, he would not have added much to the sum of American graphics. Most of his lithographs and screen prints until then were small versions of his paintings, done up to ten years after the event, without much sign of the fierce inquisitiveness he showed as a painter. To expand, he needed a larger technology-and got it from two printing firms, Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles and Tyler Graphics Ltd. in Bedford...
Thousands of employees at Eastman Kodak are seriously pondering whether they should quit their jobs. This wave of soul searching does not mean that morale or working conditions at the company have suddenly deteriorated. Employees are thinking about leaving because management is tempting them with severance payments as high as half their annual salaries. Employees who are 55 or older with 21 or more years of service will get, on top of the lump-sum bonuses, at least 55% of the pension benefits they were expecting...
...efforts launched last year by Exxon and Du Pont. Hurt by falling profits, Exxon last summer sent letters to some 30,000 employees in divisions judged to be overstaffed, promising cash payments in exchange for resignations. Supervisors warned that layoffs might become necessary if not enough people quit. The company will not disclose the terms of the deals or how many workers accepted...
...confidence votes against the president, the last by a 3-to-l margin. In November, Funderburk refused the faculty's request that he step down. Matters worsened last week with the resignation of Wayne Flynt as chairman of the history department. Three days earlier, Gerald Johnson had quit as head of the political-science program. Said he: "I know that I could not in good conscience and integrity tell a young faculty member that Auburn is the place for you in your professional future...