Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Klein won't positively commit more than the "first part" of her life to academia. Should she quit,"I've had people say to me that they think I should run for public office. I don't think I could ever do that--it's unclear to me whether individuals in public positions really can do anything," she says...
...Lucey quit his office to accept Jimmy Carter's appointment as Ambassador to Mexico. There he ran into problems almost immediately. Embassy staffers and members of the large colony of American businessmen, for example, were displeased that he spoke no Spanish and had no diplomatic experience. The White House, moreover, felt he had confused the delicate negotiations for the importing of Mexican natural gas in September 1979. Just a month later, Lucey resigned as envoy and became deputy director of Edward Kennedy's campaign against Carter...
...that is changing. Two weeks ago, the United Nations Security Council voted 14-0-with the U.S. abstaining-to call on U.N. member states to quit Jerusalem as the site of their embassies. The resolution was an expression of the international outrage that has been directed at Israel for trying, in effect, to change the Israeli occupation of parts of Jerusalem into outright annexation. A bill passed by Israel's parliament, the Knesset, in July declared the whole of Jerusalem-including the eastern sector of the city, which was captured from Jordan...
...testimony was the extent to which he betrayed his deep sense of having suffered because his brother is in the White House. Because his brother's controlling interest in the Carter peanut warehouse was placed in a blind trust controlled by Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo, Billy quit the business. Billy complained that Kirbo "made decisions I was unaware of and questioned every decision I made." And because Plains attracted hordes of tourists, including those who walked into his house without knocking, Billy decided to move 20 miles away to a new, $300,000 house in Buena Vista, Ga. Testified...
...that had opposed them during the seven-year civil war, Mugabe's ZANLA and Home Affairs Minister Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA. When Mugabe asked Walls to head the new integrated army in March, the Rhodesian-born soldier, 54, accepted the assignment with apparent enthusiasm; but he suddenly quit after less than four months and went on preretirement leave...