Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...education"--cadets actually receive half a second lieutenant's pay during their four years--don't usually stay around. The attrition rate hovers at 25 per cent. "No one comes just for the education," says one cadet who wants to be an army officer. "If they do, they either quit--or are quitted." The message from other cadets is the same: "You either accept the system or go home...
...prominent Polish émigré" says that Marx "would not believe his eyes" if he saw workers revolting against their Communist government? Marx would have quit even looking at 20th century man's feeble attempts at Communism long ago-after so many Stalins, purges, Gulags, 17th of Junes, Prague springs, Cultural Revolutions, democratic Kampucheas and Berlin Walls. If the "Communists" of Eastern Europe bore even a resemblance to what Marx had intended, I doubt that I and thousands of other G.I.s would need to be in West Germany...
...well. Maybe I'll start jogging. By the time I quit, the other Nautilus course will only be a month away...
...because I know more than I knew then, more about resting players, letting them drink water, more about other ways to lead them. They had to put up with my stupidity. I believe if I'd have been one of those players, I'd have quit...
...personal life. Most of Douglas' hobnobbing seems to have taken place at stag parties. When his poker partners played sucker for Harry S. Truman, letting the President walk off with $5,000 despite a night of mediocre hands, Douglas reports he was so "disgusted" that he quit poker forever...