Word: quit
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After former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver quit last May to become a "public affairs consultant," he drove about town for a while in a dark blue Dodge, very much like the limousines that transport top Executive Branch officials. The car served to get Deaver where he was going in more ways than one: in status-conscious Washington, it was a not-so-subtle reminder of / his White House connections. Now Deaver has given up the status symbol of public power for one of private wealth. These days he rides in a chauffeur- driven Jaguar XJ6 equipped...
...amoral revolving-door world of Washington, it has become just as respectable to lobby as to be lobbied. Ronald Reagan may have come to Washington to pare down the size of the Federal Government, but many of his former top aides have quit to profit off Big Government as influence peddlers. None has been more successful more swiftly than Reagan's former deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver, who may multiply his White House income sixfold in his first year out of government by offering the nebulous blend of access, influence and advice that has become so valued in Washington...
...also cash in by selling their expertise and connections. Indeed, members of the House Ways and Means Committee were concerned that the President's tax-reform bill would provoke an exodus of staffers into the lobbying ranks. Their fears were not unfounded: the committee's chief counsel, John Salmon, quit to work as a lobbyist for the law firm of Dewey, Ballantine; James Healey, former aide to Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, quit to join Black, Manafort...
...Savannah was born with a silver spoon in her mouth; she was also born needing steel braces on her legs for seven years to correct badly turned-in feet and a spinal deformity. "Restless and bored" with the schools and rules that came with her heritage, she eventually quit college and at 21 left the U.S. for what became eleven years in Europe, Africa and Asia with little more than the 65-lb. rucksack she carried on her back...
...couple are planning to sell the store before they marry in April. "I want to go to business school," she says. "I've got to learn how to manage this money." Will she play again? "They say good things come in threes, so . . ." Then she reconsidered and decided to quit after all. "I'm going to give everyone else a chance...