Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report on marijuana by the National Academy of Sciences [March 8] stressed that so far there is no evidence the substance actually causes addiction. The academy ought to talk to the thousands of everyday users who want to quit. I was one. I know it is very hard to stop either gradually or cold turkey. Now I counsel others-some in tears, grown men weeping, because they realize that it is a one-way ticket down...
...supervisors had ordered him two months ago to confine his reports to strictly physiological data and refrain from "sensationalism and editorializing." Three days before Belushi's death, the board expressed its displeasure more firmly and voted unanimously to seek the coroner's resignation. Noguchi refused to quit his $69,000-a-year job, and so the supervisors late last week upped the ante by suspending him for a month. The board seems intent on firing or at least demoting Noguchi from the high-profile job he has held for 15 years...
...exposure on Mary Tyler Moore's 1978 variety show ("The producer kept wanting me to dress up in a gopher suit and dance"), Letterman won bookings on The Tonight Show, first as a guest and then as a frequent guest host. In 1980, when Johnny Carson threatened to quit his show, Letterman was often mentioned as most likely to succeed. Like Steve Allen, whose syndicated talk show in the '60s had much of Late Night's loopy spontaneity, Carson has been a major influence on Letterman-ever since the '50s, when Johnny got laughs...
Since the sport turned pre in 1969, it has become vogue for the tennis elite to misbehave, scream, and quit when things don't go their way. But most secondly, in addition to their ravings and histrionics in front of the paying crowd--many of whom actually come to enjoy a good argument--the glamour boys of the international circuit are treading the baseline of player responsibility, impugning the integrity all professional athletes should display...
...slash costs, he moved the firm's headquarters to Chicago to be closer to AM's plants and sold off the high-tech acquisitions. As the company's prospects continued to deteriorate, though, Black decided to sue. Last week AM International announced that he had quit to avoid a conflict between his employment and the lawsuit...