Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lawrence (17-3 ECAC), now first in the ECAC, has an offense that won't quit, and a defense that won't let it. The Saints sport a high-power trio in Pete Lappin (11-30--41), Brian McColgan (12-26--38) and Jamie Baker (22-15--37). But the SLU defense has as many holes as a golf course. Goalie Paul Cohen (.893 save percentage, 3.10 g.a.a) does the best...
Boston area drivers make New York, Paris, and Beirut drivers--the latter being known for plowing into buildings while carrying tons of explosives--look like little old ladies from Kansas. Professional bus drivers have threatened to quit if sent to drive in Boston. Unfortunately, this frightening phenomenon affects Cambridge as well. When I applied to school here, I had no understanding of the "evil driver syndrome," or the black magic it would soon use to suck me into its vortex of fear and hatred...
...also involved a lot of dedication on her part. "I basically quit everything and just did diving," Greene says...
...tough radio ads outlining issue after issue in which "Congressman Gephardt" said one thing while "Candidate Gephardt" said another. Michael Dukakis accused Gephardt of being "protectionist" and having 19th century ideas about trade. Even several of Gephardt's former staffers described his new persona as contrived. Don Foley, who quit as his press secretary three months ago, told friends, "Some days he doesn't even know...
...computer communications" course. She would qualify for a federally guaranteed student loan, she was told, if she would fake her age upward a year to 17. Though her school guidance counselor warned that she lacked the skills for such a program, Hernandez enrolled, only to quit when the going got too rough. Now receiving bills for $4,400 in outstanding loans, she baby-sits for a precarious living. "I just wasted my time," she says. "I didn't learn nothing" -- except a tough lesson about trade schools...