Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the war began, Carrington chose to quit, he says, to "prevent recriminations about whether the Foreign Secretary at the helm was still to blame...
Richard Cooley was 59 and had been chairman of San Francisco's Wells Fargo & Co. for 16 years when he abruptly quit his job last December. A day later it turned out he was to become chief executive of another bank-holding company, Seafirst Corp. in Seattle. With $10 billion in assets, Seafirst is less than half the size of Wells Fargo, but Cooley's new job is turning out to be double the challenge of his old one. Last week Seafirst, which owns the Seattle-First National Bank, reported a surprisingly large operating loss of $61.4 million...
...recover three cartons containing about 5,000 Scientology documents. The papers were placed under court protection by Gerry Armstrong, 36, who was authorized in January 1980 by Hubbard to gather papers for a laudatory biography. Armstrong found documents so damaging to the cult's credibility that he quit the church in disgust. He vows to use the papers to prove his charges, made in a sworn statement for a court case in Florida, that "Mr. Hubbard had continually misrepresented himself and had lied about his past...
...There was something about her I was in love with," admits the show's director-choreographer Larry Fuller, 44, who made the dances for Evita and Sweeney Todd. Marilyn will be played by Stephanie Lawrence, who portrayed Monroe last fall on a BBC show and who will quit the title role of Evita for the new part...
...Bowls were won by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers, none of whom made it back even to the play-offs the following year. John Madden, who celebrated the 1977 Super Bowl with Oakland after eight years of trying, slipped the next season and quit coaching the year after that. He says, "The real pressure is having to do it again and again...