Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a definite tradeoff between studying and ROTC unless you give up your social life," says the midshipman, who is "pretty sure" he is going to quit ROTC next year. "If ROTC was more flexible to allow for greater participation in other activities, I think it would benefit their program and they would be able to retain more people...
Marr's students are fully aware of their affliction and have come to Landmark from all over the country. Founded in September, it is the first postsecondary school in America devoted exclusively to teaching dyslectics. Typical is Andy Thompson, 26, who quit Franklin University in Columbus after fumbling through his classes, then got fired as an electronics technician because, as his wife Jane explains, "they said he was too slow and inattentive." Trey Smith, another Landmark enlistee, had similar symptoms and his own deep frustrations. A superb pulling guard at his Dallas high school, Smith saw a raft of football...
...deputy chief of staff raised eyebrows when he met with Office of Management and Budget Director James Miller III in February to discuss the B-1 bomber, built by Deaver client Rockwell International. Federal rules bar former senior officials from lobbying their old agencies for a year after they quit their posts, and Deaver's quarantine lasts until...
...thought that the cooperative had died when the Peace Corps quit Panama in 1971. Instead, it had blossomed into a cottage industry that brings substantial cash into an economy formerly based on coconuts. Today, 1,365 women on 17 islands turn out thousands of dollars' worth of mola products each year, from pillows and purses to the traditional squares. The co-op runs a store in Panama City that sells wholesale to tourist shops in town and even exports to the U.S. Like everything else in the co-op, the store is run by Kuna women only...
...Forman who directed Cagney in Ragtime, the 1981 film that brought him back into the public eye after two decades of retirement. After completing Billy Wilder's 1961 comedy One, Two, Three, Cagney vowed to quit filmmaking. Content in the company of his wife and a small circle of friends, he divided his time between two farms in the East and a home in Beverly Hills. He dabbled in painting, bred horses and collected antique carriages. But with the help of Cagney's associates, Forman lured the actor out of retirement to play Ragtime's canny police commissioner...