Word: quit
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...travesty of justice to many other Leadwoodites. Soon Mayor Dick Hall, the city clerk, the city treasurer and most of the police department resigned in protest over the firing. Unfazed, the aldermen elected one of their own, Shelby Lawson, to replace Mayor Hall. With all the turmoil, however, she quit after two days. Thus it was that the Leadwood aldermen turned to the only man they could trust: Harvey Penberthy, who became the third mayor in less than a week. But Mayor Penberthy, who also runs the town garage, soon learned that holding high public office was no fun. Said...
...shore up profits, Exxon is slimming down its work force, which has swelled 28% since 1972, to 180,000. Within the past few weeks, some 30,000 employees in the U.S. have received letters from management offering them cash incentives to quit their jobs. The company will not reveal the exact terms of the golden handshake deals, but range from a few months' pay for relatively new workers to full pension benefits and generous bonuses for those nearing retirement. Insiders say that management's goal is to trim the staff by 15%. Supervisors have warned their workers that...
...resignation comes at a difficult time for the President. Weidenbaum is the third senior economic adviser to quit in the past two months, and critics of the Administration's policies seem to be gaining strength. Publicly, though, Weidenbaum remains optimistic about the eventual payoff of the Reagan policy. He remarked last week that he feels like Moses in the Old Testament. Said Weidenbaum: "He led his people to the Promised Land, but did not quite make it there himself...
Then, ten years ago, he began to see the segregationist system as "an illusion" and quit the Broederbond. Last December, Smith gave public vent to his changed views with the publication of Storm-Kompas, a booklet in which 24 prominent Afrikaner clergy and writers attacked apartheid on religious and moral grounds. Smith was the volume's principal editor. Within the ironclad code of Afrikaner society, the book's viewpoint was shocking. The publication was only a warmup. Last month Smith was prominent among the 123 N.G. Church clergy who issued a fierce, indeed historic, protest against the regime...
...consistent. Oh, and when someone's chasing my records and they ask me to come to the ballpark, I'll be there." But the time is not near. "You know," Rose says, a little sad, "I'm starting to get letters from people now saying, 'Quit making a big deal of your age.' But that's the one thing you can't change: the day you were born...