Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school Alison was a champion figure skater. In Mauritania there is no ice. In fact, there is very little but sand, She was told by the people who assigned her to that country that 70 percent of Mauritania bound volunteers quit in their first year. The natives are starving, disease runs rampant, and water is searce. Foliage in Mauritania is gradually disappearing under sand dunes, which are creeping across the country at a rate of several thousand feof each year. It seems strange to me that our own New England sun, which turns the fall sky ice blue, sparkles...
...General Motors. He had charmed his way into the glitzier show-biz celebrity circles, dating the likes of Candice Bergen, Nancy Sinatra and Ursula Andress before selecting his third wife, Actress-Model Cristina Ferrare, 32 (he is 57). Impatient with the corporate world's slow decision making, he had quit GM to race down a faster track. He had persuaded Britain's frugal government to give him $156 million and used it to turn vacant land outside Belfast into an ultramodern auto factory site in just 2½ years. When his flashy De Lorean sports cars failed to sell, his company...
...quit. The resignation made him even more of a white-collar folk legend, the free-spirited rebel who "fired GM," which suited De Lorean fine. "That was some salary to give up," he said in 1980, "but I have never worried about money. I do things for themselves." Richard Gerstenberg, then chairman of GM, arranged for De Lorean to take over as president of the National Alliance of Business, an organization of socially conscious executives. Among other good works, the group encouraged employment of ex-convicts...
...signed to a fiveyear, $3.5 million contract as a free agent, had the decisive hit in Game 2, a home run in Game 6 and a single of some importance in Game 7. "Every time I got another hit," Porter noticed as he went along, "a few more folks quit booing." Eight for 28, Porter batted .286 in the series, and when the Cardinals won, four games to three, he was declared Most Valuable Player...
Among the many people who telephoned Stigler to offer congratulations was another enthusiastic critic of over-regulation by government. Said a grinning Stigler of his early-morning telephone chat with Ronald Reagan: "I told him he was a good President, and not to quit...