Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned the corner. We're playing with intensity, enthusiasm and hardness. They've matured and grown and didn't quit," he said...
...year ago Falwell stated that it was time for him to de-emphasize politics and stick closer to his base in Lynchburg, Va. That intention was deflected when he became emergency overlord of the scandal-pocked PTL ministry, only to quit in frustration last month. Now he will concentrate on building a new $30 million, 11,000-seat home for his Baptist church, increasing enrollment from 8,000 to 12,000 at his Liberty University and reinvigorating support for his troubled TV program...
Barring a major stumble, though, Robertson promises to emerge with durable political influence. For the moment, he is pointedly keeping the Religious Right at arm's length to broaden his appeal, and in talks refers to his previous vocation as "businessman," not "evangelist." He has quit the Southern Baptist clergy and ceded control of his Christian Broadcasting Network to Son Timothy. But his organization of volunteers and financial supporters draws heavily upon the Christian Right and is one of the most substantial political infrastructures ever built in the U.S. on a religious base. It should carry Robertson and his smoothly...
...once hallowed given of corporate, academic and political life. Even the military can no longer count on blind obedience from officers' wives. Indeed, two women recently complained that brass at Grissom Air Force Base in Indiana warned them that their husbands' chances of promotion would be jeopardized unless they quit their civilian jobs. Following an investigation, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger this month forbade commanders to intrude in the careers of military spouses...
...stops just to get Powell to join the NSC as his deputy. In late 1986 Powell had taken command of the Army V Corps in Frankfurt, West Germany, after some five years in the Pentagon as an aide to Carlucci and then Weinberger. He was reluctant to quit his post after only six months. But Carlucci was determined to get his friend back to Washington. When President Reagan, at Carlucci's urging, personally phoned Powell to offer him the NSC job, the general had little choice but to obey his Commander in Chief...