Word: quit
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Littauer Professor of Political Economy Thomas C. Schelling has quit smoking four times, and now, as director of the Kennedy School's Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy, Schelling has been working to understand how smoking laws affect people's willingness to quit the tobacco habit, as well as learn why people start and stop smoking in the first place...
Schelling says he has noticed that many company employees who previously smoked only at work have now quit completely as they do not like the idea of going outdoors or into a room reserved for smokers...
...Also we are trying to find ways to help people who want to quit by bringing in a therapist to the company or by giving them money to go to a hypnotist or someone who can help them," he says...
...woman and man told the three of us how they had suffered through the deaths of loved ones, or drug abuse, or poor health, or.... They told us how Jimmy Swaggart had brought them love. It was beautiful, they said. They had dropped out of college, quit their jobs, left their homes and moved from other states to study at Swaggart's Bible College and pray in his church...
...first time, both parties in Austria's shaky coalition government seemed to harbor serious doubts about the President. Fritz Rucker, vice chairman of the pro-Waldheim People's Party in Salzburg, quit to protest what he called "false slavish loyalty" toward Waldheim. Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, who heads the Socialists, threatened to resign unless the furor over Waldheim died down...