Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Johnson, Harvard's star women's lacrosse goalie for the last three years, has learned a lot from Dempacy. She began playing lacrosse at the Friends School in Baltimore when she was 10, and has never quit...
...reactions and contains "empty" carbohydrate calories, that is, with no nutritional value. It also relieves stress by releasing endorphins, chemicals that calm the nervous system. Many people drink to relieve stress, says John Bagshaw, a University of California associate professor of medicine, but they often cut down consumption or quit entirely when they begin an exercise program. Reason: the endorphins released by a workout preclude the need for alcohol. Tapering off for health reasons may be an enduring trend for an aging and sedentary population. "We're becoming a nation of clerks," says Megatrends Author John Naisbitt. "Over...
...into a manic, grab-'em-by-the-lapels paper that jolted readers with apocalyptic headlines. If newsprint could talk, the Post would be the loudest paper in the country. A rambunctious student upsets a teacher? Read all about it in last Wednesday's edition under MOTORMOUTH MENACE MADE ME QUIT. If the Post had not been so uncharacteristically silent about its possible fate last week, its front-page story might have been headlined AUSSIE NO LONGER OUR BOSSIE? WHAT NEXT...
...speaking skills to handle today's service- industry jobs or the connections to find them. Even geography has become a barrier. Reason: inner-city neighborhoods offer relatively few openings compared with the suburbs, where jobs have been sprouting like dandelions. Frustration has caused a lot of minority youngsters to quit looking. Says Marcia Saunders, director of the Dade County, Fla., affirmative action program: "There's a tremendous number of kids with no hope in the job market. And in this community, drugs are claiming a lot of them. It's just a horror...
Next came sophomore Young Kim, who lasted several weeks before being suspended for missing an away match at Dartmouth--a contest that marked Harvard's first upset by the Big Green in five years. After his suspension, Kim quit the team, making way for sophomore Adam Keller...