Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO: "Labor is not supporting testing in the workplace. As part of a physical exam for new employees, it is acceptable, but otherwise there are problems of violating civil rights." Some unions also fight against firings of workers with drug problems. Rockwell's Frankel quit as the company's medical director in 1983 partly because, he says, management repeatedly gave in to union demands that drug abusers be reinstated in their jobs...
According to ABC, the memo said that if the shuttle had been launched, the engines could have quit before the craft entered orbit, leading to a possible emergency landing in Spain and "serious safety-offlight consequences...
...quit playing baseball when I was 17," Blair recalls. "We got to the provincial championships in hockey, got beat in the finals and I got hurt the next winter. I went to the doctor and he pretty well said you have to make a decision--your back won't really handle it. And I chose hockey...
...maintaining a strong national defense. Strength is the only way to make the Soviets negotiate arms reductions and "cease bullying" smaller nations, the President insisted. "Tonight, the security program that you and I launched to restore America's strength is in jeopardy," he said, "threatened by those who would quit before the job is done." He spoke of the arms-control talks now under way in Geneva. "Just as we are sitting down at the bargaining table with the Soviet Union," Reagan pleaded, "let's not throw America's trump card away...
...criticized the President until now, despite a humiliating loss of power to General Ver, which Marcos ) sanctioned, as long as two years ago he had begun privately to confide his concerns about Ver's broad powers. If Marcos again declared martial law, he said, he would feel compelled to quit his post...