Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grapple with the question: Who is a Jew? The latest phase of the dispute, involving the legitimacy of an American woman's conversion to Judaism, led last week to the resignation of Interior Minister Yitzhak Peretz from the Cabinet and threats from the country's religious parties to quit the coalition government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir...
Nine days later Athletic Director Bob Hitch and Football Coach Bobby Collins quit. Their resignations seemed normal in such circumstances, but there was irony in Shields' departure. Since his arrival in 1980, he had pushed academic improvement as well as big-time football, adding 21 endowed chairs. This year SAT scores of incoming students rose to 1,100 from last year's respectable 1,020. But Shields' rejuvenated professoriat, says Faculty Senate President Leroy Howe, "is less tolerant of academic abridgments. They see it as a fundamental compromise of the institution...
...played a sloppy second half," Roby said. "We just didn't concentrate. It's a credit to Brandeis that they didn't quit when we went so far ahead...
Following the NSC meeting, events moved quickly toward the climax almost nobody in Washington had anticipated. Late Monday afternoon Meese personally questioned Poindexter for the first time and got the impression that the National Security Adviser was ready to quit. Poindexter, who is a Vice Admiral, promptly confirmed that desire by immediately offering his resignation to Reagan, who accepted it the next morning; he told the President he wanted to return to active duty in the Navy. Nobody made any attempt to dissuade him. According to one insider, Reagan was far more angry with Poindexter than the President would...
Episodes like these inspired Waldorf to quit his classes at the university and work with the welfare group for his last two months in South Africa. In addition to handing out material aid to the refugees, the group negotiated with various political factions in the townships who did not want the squatters in their churches...