Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clash of children and career can force a painful choice. When Los Angeles Lawyer Kimberly Shaller, 29, had her second baby, her "leave of absence turned into retirement. I used to think I could have both, but now I feel sort of misled." Yet many women cannot afford to quit. "Wives have been working because their families need the money," says University of Wisconsin Business School Professor Dowell Myers. "Most women are still working pink collar. They're not in a career. They're in it because they need the bucks...
Taking an M.A. in sociology from Northwestern in 1970, Ford went west to law school at the University of California, Berkeley, because "I needed more credentials and equipment." After nearly three years of providing legal aid to welfare clients back in Chicago, he quit, frustrated by the low pay and disillusioned with the possibilities for creating change through the federal courts. He decided to go into real estate instead...
...similar exodus has occurred at the American University Hospital, once one of the most prestigious teaching facilities in the region. In April, Dr. Dennis Alexander, a research lecturer, became the last Westerner to quit the hospital staff. "In the past year morale has gone," he says. "At present, the hospital is just barely viable." Administrators estimate the 420-bed facility's annual loss at about $8 million...
...left him paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a wheelchair to get around. Without a special elevator, Wallace needed his friends to hoist him onto the stage. At his request, the University began plans to install a lift, but Wallace was "fed up" waiting for it and quit the group before it was built...
...even with all the time problems that makeme want to quit, when I put on my uniform andofficer's cap, I feel so proud of myself and mycountry that I don't want to [quit] anymore," saysan anonymous Navy midshipman