Word: quit
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Another highly effective White House aide, Chief Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf, resigned last week. Friedersdorf apparently quit for personal reasons; he had been hospitalized by an asthma attack last summer and took a less hectic job as U.S. consul general in Bermuda. He was replaced by Kenneth Duberstein, one of his chief assistants, who had proved adept at lining up votes for Reagan's programs in the Democratic-controlled House. Nonetheless, a lobbyist with Friedersdorf's skill in wooing legislators is bound to be missed...
...attempt to acquire that small card which would permit him to play the pro circuit. He sighed as the ball rimmed the cup and stopped spinning half-an-inch from the hole. This would be his last qualifier, he promised himself. If he didn't make it, he would quit...
Even though they practice just once a week, the Classics are no hackers at their game. Classics try-outs take place right after varsity and junior varsity cuts, and 14 of the 16 players on the current roster were once with the varsity or J.V. Some quit for lack of playing time with the varsity. Others, like Dave Coatsworth--who started for the varsity most of his freshman year--quit when varsity became too great a time commitment...
...Chargers' defensive coordinator, is a survivor of that infamous 1954 Junction (Texas) training camp in the Bear's first Texas A&M season. Of 96 players who went to summer camp, 27 were left after ten days of workouts in up to 110° heat. The others quit. "It was an effort to survive," says Pardee. "Each player could tell his own story, but mine was simply to make it to the next practice." The Bryant term for such tests: "gut checks...
...fraudulent. Colleagues discovered that his results included protein gels-isolated bits of cellular matter-that were cunningly doctored to look like something they were not. While Spector denied any wrongdoing, he was expelled from the Cornell lab, withdrew his Ph.D. thesis, even though it had already been approved, and quit the university. Important aspects of his work may yet turn out to be true, but few believe he will ever be able to return to scientific research...