Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...younger Pickens was unhappy at Phillips from the start. He overflowed with ideas that his bosses refused to heed. After four years of watching his frustration, his wife half-jokingly asked one day, "If you hate it so much, why don't you just quit?" Returning to his office, Pickens gave notice, packed up and drove away. "It was the best advice Lynn ever gave me," he says of the episode, "though she was shocked when I told her I had taken it." Using the $1,300 he received in severance pay from Phillips' profit- $ sharing plan, Pickens bought...
...processing business has also started to take root in the U.S., which up to now has been mostly a customer. Forced to quit Colombia and aware that the ; U.S. is the world's largest producer of ether, traffickers have decided to import coca paste to Miami and process it locally. Over the past 18 months, authorities in Miami have closed down cocaine refineries at the rate of one a month. In January, an elderly woman strolling along the seashore in Palm Beach County almost stumbled over a dozen Army duffle bags. Suspicious, she called the sheriff's office; when...
...divestiture, of course, is that it's child. Divestiture from Hain or the USSR just hasn't caught on vel, but you can be a hit at any Cambridge cocktail party by dropping a few pithy lines about your recent exploits in arriving to force Bok and Harvard to quit South Mica...
...John Luric). Eddie (Richard Edson) and Willie's Hungarian cousin Eva (Eszter Balint) as they drive from New York to Cleveland to Miami Beach in search of fun and excitement. They don't find any, but they do find a grainy black and white America and some money. Not quit paradise...
...should be noticing something suspicious here, like the roommate who claims he can quit any time, yet is always chain-smoking...