Word: quit
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That summer Schatz started out as a Bloomingdale stockboy, got fed up, quit and then went to Washington to canvas for the equal rights amendment with the National Women's Political Caucus. His introduction to activism by way of feminist politicking, coupled with the news of the impending National March for Gays and Lesbians, catalyzed Schatz' political college career. "I decided I would come back to Harvard and organize for the march," he says...
...persons over the past year, and inflation persists at 6%-low by most Western standards but high by Bonn's. The Chancellor's approval rating in polls has dropped from 62% last year to 41.5% this year-lower than the rating accorded to Willy Brandt before he quit...
...Arturo Argumedo, the Salvadoran Attorney General. In later interrogations she was treated with the hostility that Salvadoran officials often direct at witnesses. She was told that her name would be made public and that the Salvadoran government could not protect her. Moreover, the judge assigned to the case quit in fear of his life...
...sorrow. Starting with a scant potential audience of 1.7 million and a paper-thin $25 million annual budget,* CNN soon faced operating costs close to $3 million per month during the heat of an election summer. News Director George Watson, the former head of ABC's Washington bureau, quit in frustration after two months of broadcasting; others followed. Most threatening of all, RCA (parent company of NBC) tried to prevent CNN from using its Satcom I satellite. But Turner beat RCA in court, and after absorbing losses of more than $20 million in the first year, his network...
Kenneth Uston, 47, is an American success story: Phi Beta Kappa in economics at Yale, Harvard M.B.A., a former senior vice president of the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, who in 1975 quit his $50,000 job to follow an offbeat, not to say raffish, entrepreneurial dream-and made it work...