Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blunt with Reagan even in private. He did not tell the President he had been wrong to impose the sanctions or, as the high-strung Alexander Haig might have done, threaten to quit if the policy was not reversed. Instead, he acted more like a reassuring but lucid tutor with Reagan. He knew that the President would not abandon his wish to punish the Soviets. Shultz's basic stance was that restrictions on the export of advanced Western technology to Moscow, if the ban had the support of all NATO allies, would far more effectively prick the Soviet economy...
...months later. Duran, after shivering all his great lightweight career in the shade of Muhammad Ali's shadow, came into the spotlight as if out of a cave and was greeted by an Ali just his size. He rubbed his eyes. Later he rubbed his stomach. When Duran quit in the eighth round of the return match, a Leonard tour de force, nobody could believe either the alibi-the little wolf had wolfed down too much lunch-or the truth: an uncivilized man took a civilized...
...threatened to quit in the middle of the event, though," the Monde cross country captain laughs now. "I told the coach that if I was lapped three lines I was going to drop our. But I only got lapped once, and I even lapped someone. I through. Hey! This is great...
...Mulcahy children, and the first of four to follow their father into the CIA. (None work for the agency any longer.) He was 21 at the time, and specialized in high-speed communications and computer technology. Five years later, in 1968, married and the father of two sons, Mulcahy quit for the far higher pay of the computer industry. The jobs got better and better, but his drinking problem and marriage got worse and worse. There was a divorce...
When Terpil and Wilson ordered him to procure a lightweight guided antiaircraft missile for Libya, Mulcahy balked. In the firm's files he found startling evidence of international terrorism-for-hire, including a plan to train and equip hitmen in the Libyan desert. Mulcahy quit and went to the authorities. The Government's investigation of Terpil and Wilson was frustratingly slow. But Mulcahy, often obliged to live in hiding and disguise, persevered, talking for hundreds of hours to federal investigators and providing them with incriminating documents taken from Wilson's office...