Word: quit
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These findings appeared in the Irish Times after the Haughey government had lost the general election to Garret FitzGerald's Fine Gael/Labor coalition. Both Doherty and MacSharry quit the Fianna Fail shadow cabinet, two senior police officers resigned, and the government started an investigation of its own. Though Haughey insisted he knows nothing of the shady doings, his political future suddenly seemed endangered...
...Haughey to resign as Fianna Fail's leader last week. "The heat was so strong in there you could burn your hands on the flames," said one M.P. after a party meeting to discuss the scandal. But despite the growing rebellion in the ranks, Haughey has refused to quit. Said the Irish Times: "He is not to be dislodged by assaults that would shift normally tenacious men." In part, Haughey is able to hold on because of some old-fashioned political patronage. Says one Irish reporter: "Charlie has people everywhere. When the chips are down, he is hard...
...addition, say the women, an advanced starting time would allow them to quit work earlier and avoid the danger of late-night muggings. Earlier hours would also improve their domestic lives. Most are mothers and they would have more time to spend with their children. Profits would also improve. The going rate for a trick in Zurich is $50, a price that has not kept pace with inflation. Says Josephine in exasperation: "I would like to know another profession that has worked for the same wages for 14 years." The city council has agreed to consider the prostitutes' petition...
...courageous and risky decision, for he had two children by this time, and the choice drew opposition and scorn from friends and family. Many years later he wrote Felix Frankfurter, "I think I was made to suffer as acutely over my decision to quit the law for poetry as it possible to make a man suffer over any decision it is that I gave up a career as a first-rate lawyer to become a third-rate poet...
...list drawn up by Scientology leaders. Flynn claims that he has continually been threatened and harassed by Scientologists. He keeps a gun in his office desk and often uses bodyguards. A private pilot, he contends, "I nearly died a couple of years ago when the engine of my plane quit. Someone had put gallons of water in the gas tank, but I can't prove who did it." A current officer of the church maintains that Flynn "is a man desperate for money" who hopes to reap riches from his cut of any successful suits against the church...