Word: quit
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Activists are urging confrontation. The radical Evangelical magazine Sojourners calls for prayerful protests at all U.S. nuclear facilities. Seattle's Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen suggests a tax boycott. In Amarillo, Texas, Bishop L.T. Matthiesen is asking employees to quit work at the nearby Pantex plant, which assembles nuclear bombs. Clergy in California and Connecticut have been prominent backers of legislative petitions endorsing a freeze of U.S. and Russian nuclear-weapon production. Says Pastor John Thursby of Lyme, Conn.: "God would not be pleased if we return his creation to him in ashes." Other local congregations are backing...
Holliday is more than a delight. She has devastating vocal firepower and a stage presence that could crumble reinforced concrete. While the show was out of town, she and Bennett got into an "I quit" - "You're fired" imbroglio that had her out of Dreamgirls until the pair made up. Near the end of Act I, Effie's lover (Ben Harney), who is the cynical manager of the trio, replaces her with a slim looker who possesses the svelte image he feels that the Dreams need to captivate white audiences. He has also taken a new bedmate. Partly...
Hundreds of University-employed students receiving National Direct Student Loans (NDSL) may be forced to quit their jobs within a few weeks, financial aid officials said yesterday...
...evidence against Tafoya included a transcript of a telephone conversation in which he asked a Wilson associate whether he knew of "anyone who should quit breathing-permanently." The prosecution contended that this was an offer by Tafoya to become a hired killer...
...Nitze quit as one of Richard Nixon's SALT negotiators in 1974 when he came to the conclusion that the Watergate crisis was making Nixon so desperate for a treaty that he was willing to sacrifice U.S. interests. Nitze's fear that SALT II would leave the U.S. vulnerable to a surprise Soviet attack led him to become the Carter Administration's most visible, tireless and technically well-informed opponent in the debate over Senate ratification of the treaty. Yet while Nitze's reputation is hawkish, he has never called for a return to military superiority...