Word: quit
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Morss has previously been involved in Republican politics, serving on the Republican State Committee in 1968. Halfway through her term, Morss said she quit the state committee "with a general sense of disgust" because she saw the "Reagan thing coming...
...some critics' estimates, at the end of Gorsuch's first year in office, roughly 80% of agency employees will have quit or been laid off or demoted. To William Drayton, former EPA assistant administrator for planning and management under President Carter, the layoffs are deliberate destruction. He charges: "Knowing that the public will never stand for the repeal of these environmental laws, Reagan is gutting them through the personnel and budgetary back doors. With only the shattered shell of an EPA left, our environmental statutes will be largely meaningless...
They did not take to the idea of school in the beginning. In Argyle 4 a gang of six welcomed a new American volunteer teacher with fistfuls of stones thrown through the classroom window. Many Vietnamese children in the refugee camps have never gone to school, or quit very early. Many are country kids. Many have been used to running wild back home, and have never conformed to an institution. Yet some are catching on rather well. A fine pencil drawing of a classroom shows open books resting on four desks in neat rows, with the teacher's desk elevated...
Despite his status as the second Bermuda Shoot winner--as fast as Mr. Zimmerman can remember, anyway--Clay has no plans to return to his second-string forwards's spot for the Beloit Buccaneers. He quit just two weeks ago because, Nancy cuts in, "They were just making him practice too much." The Buccaneers' loss is apparently the botany lab's gain...
Contrary to the article in The Crimson of December 15th, hundreds of students will not be forced to quit their jobs within a few weeks. The situation this year is no different from other years...