Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas, who had driven Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle into exile, agreed to share power with the moderates. But from the beginning the pluralism failed. The government and, crucially, the army were dominated by the Sandinistas. Moderates were forced out of office, or quit in frustration. Says a ranking military analyst: "Only the Sandinistas came out on top. If I had the least hope that a negotiated settlement would produce a tolerable government [in El Salvador], I'd want to help them. But I don't think that the few moderates will survive the transition...
...February of 1973, two members of Harvard's then nationally ranked soccer team quit Not just the squad, but college. Two of the most talented of the Crimson's mind boggling lineup of international talent. Dragan Vujovic of Yugoslavia and Norwegian Bent Hinze, were not only worried that a Harvard education might have little practical use when they returned home, but also had decided they had seen enough of American college athletics...
However, the report notes the use of such aids as televised smoking clinics and taped telephone messages to encourage maintained abstinence. "Brief and simple advice to quit smoking delivered by a physician" can offer substantial support. Even after a person quits, the report says, it takes up to 15 years for the ex-smoker's chances of developing cancer to drop to those of a nonsmoker. The Surgeon General's report notes that a child is about twice as likely to become a smoker if either parent is one. As to giving up cigarettes, a college degree helps...
...alert people to the hazards of smoking. In that effort he is counting mostly on the public's common sense. Says he: "If I were a smoker of a pipe, cigar or cigarette and were reasonably intelligent and had read this report, I would long since have quit." Indeed, Koop once did smoke a pipe, but, setting a good example, he gave it up ten years ago. -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by Jeanne Saddler/Washington and Nancy Pierce Williamson/New York
...fact, Johnson was so low-key about pursuing the field events that she did not even-go out for the track team when she first arrived at Harvard. She took a taste of Radcliffe crew ("They put me at stroke which really didn't surprise me"), then quit to pursue her love of basketball. It was only after leaving the hoop team because of its "pressure and lack of cameraderie" that Johnson went out for the tack team...