Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andover Jacques was a fine swimmer in his own right. That he could come to Harvard, choose to quit swimming competitively and then make such a large time commitment to the team in his new capacity demonstrates his ability to adapt easily," former Andover classmate Andy Gilmour says...
...some of his applause lines. Late in the speech, he drew a loud and long ovation by asking the assembled Congressmen and Senators to make his program not just the Administration's idea but "our plan." Reagan flashed his widest grin and remarked, "I should have arranged to quit right there" -then went on speaking for another 4½minutes...
...major criticism of the program is that FHA subsidizes inefficiency by providing marginal farmers with enough funds so that they will not have to quit the land. Contends John Lawlor, executive vice president of the Citizen State Bank in Belle Plaine: "They've kept people in business who should have been carrying a lunch pail." But Vernon Nelson, FHA supervisor for Benton County, is proud that his loans have contributed to the success of farmers who just need a little help in competing with the conglomerate operators. The argument over FHA boils down to one of practicality vs. sentiment...
...fares better. The barbed wire is pushed off into a corner, and the sets are Dufy-bright and lively. The story, a gutsy farce that Poulenc took from a drama by Apollinaire, concerns a fed-up woman named Thérèse (Soprano Catherine Malfitano) who decides to quit the second sex by removing her breasts-really two bright balloons. Meanwhile, her husband (Baritone David Holloway) assumes female dress and godlike fecundity; in a day he/she produces 40,049 offspring. Eventually both resume their original genders and celebrate the need to repopulate the world after war. Among Hockney...
That is scarcely what Williams and her colleagues have in mind. She and the other leading dissidents will officially quit the party on March 9 and, later in the month, plan a formal launching of the Social Democratic Party...