Word: quit
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They say that a few members of the club quit in protest and somebody on the club's graduate board eventually intervened in the matter--admirable gestures--but the Porcellian Club still doesn't have any Black members. I asked a faculty member why this sort of thing goes on at a University which prides itself on open-mindedness. And he looked across the Yard and muttered something about the club being a private institution and not blaming everyone for what two members did, and shook his head. "Some things at Harvard," he said, "never change...
...expected a quarrel over teachers' salaries would be an issue that would provoke Cabinet ministers to threaten to quit if they did not get their way. But that is precisely what happened...
Granville has been firing off stock market predictions since 1957, when he joined E.F. Hutton to write its daily market letter. After the brokerage house began heavily editing Granville's highly opinionated copy, he quit and started his own investment service. He emerged from the bear market of the early 1970s with a dubious record. During those years, he kept urging subscribers to buy stocks even though the market continued to sink. Granville conveniently likes to forget that period and says that he has called every major market swing for the past 6½ years...
Alexei Kosygin, 76, pragmatic politician-engineer who, with Leonid Brezhnev, wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 and served as Premier until, in failing health, he quit his post last October...
...West Germany to work on a doctoral dissertation. In 1962 he helped found the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies. When Nixon was elected President, Allen was appointed to the NSC, but he quickly ran afoul of the man in charge: Kissinger. Relegated to lackluster assignments, Allen quit in ten months, and he and Kissinger have been sniping at each other ever since...