Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first love is basketball. "I'm the type who likes to do something all out or not at all. I demand a lot from myself. And I really love basketball. That's why I quit tennis. I didn't put down my racquet, I just picked up a basketball," she says...
...longtime aides out of the campaign. As finance director, Lyn Nofziger had argued with Sears' decision to start the campaign slowly and to replace some Reagan loyalists from 1976 with more moderate organizers. When fund raising lagged and Nofziger became more combative, Sears forced him to quit. Aide Mike Deaver then took charge of money raising, but Sears resented Deaver's independence. To spare Reagan the pain of choosing between the two, Deaver resigned...
...hear. "It's worth a lawsuit just to find out who the insider is," says Lynde, who is suing the paper for reporting last fall that excessive drinking had caused him to collapse and that he was forced off the television show Hollywood Squares (Lynde says he quit to pursue other options...
...from Northwestern University, she went to Los Angeles to teach in a Watts high school just after the bloody riots of 1965. Later she became a model for Max Factor and Alberto-Culver, then landed movie roles in Loving and Rio Lobo. But she preferred the production side and quit acting to take a $5-an-hour job as a script reader...
Phillips: If you broke with the Party, your former friends quit talking to you. It was like breaking with the Church. Say your mother was a Communist, your sister was a Communist, your best friend was a Communist--what were you going...