Word: quit
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...groups recruit promising freshmen who know little about politics or political theory and soon acquire a taste for sweeping generalities. "Basically our program stresses freedom, independence and democracy," one member says. Some groups run summer camps that bring youths to the mountains for intensive study. Others encourage students to quit school and take up jobs in factories, where they try to organize workers. While police seek to break up the groups by arresting their leaders, new ones quickly arise to replace those in jail...
Local governments are telling private clubs to quit barring people -- for example, women. Some clubs are giving in, some are fighting...
What is needed is not severe laws, but courtesy. Smokers need to be more considerate of nonsmokers and vice-versa. Most of all, however, what is needed is time. The vast majority of smokers today is comprised of people from earlier generations who haven't been able to quit...
Today, hardly anybody smokes. The only people who do smoke in college these days are the people who can't quit. (Then of course, there are people like me who could quit any time they want--but don't because they like to smoke...