Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you have the opportunity to quit while you are ahead in litigation, you take it," explained Saunders. Milton Gould, Sharon's chief attorney, said he was "astonished," and retorted: "You quit when you don't know what to do." But in presenting their case, Sharon's lawyers, from the firm of Shea & Gould, had called eight Time Inc. employees as "hostile witnesses," a tactic that allowed them the first opportunity to examine the journalists. Time Inc.'s attorneys questioned those witnesses fully during the plaintiffs presentation. Thus, the Cravath lawyers believed that the best witnesses...
More than 350 American corporations and U.S. banks hold investments and loans in South Africa. Activist stockholders and their supporters have tried, generally unsuccessfully, to persuade such firms to quit doing business there. Where that has failed, the movement has pushed a tactic termed divestment. This involves pressuring public and private institutions to sell their stock in firms that invest in South Africa...
...uncertain middle range, where most of Mimi's singing is done. It seems doubtful that her deficiencies are readily curable. She must have known early in rehearsal that the experts had been right to say that a pop singer could not make the leap to Boheme. She might have quit then and sunk a production that depended heavily on her name. That she stayed to take her critical lumps may have been arrogance, or it may have been a rare act of gallantry. ?By John Skow
...whether or not fresh Soviet financial help is forthcoming, the tide in the bitter coal strike is turning against the union. In the past three weeks, more than 13,000 striking miners have quit the picket lines. Compared with the early days of the strike, when only 40,000 of the nation's 189,000 N.U.M. members were working, more than 63,000 are now back at their jobs, according to the government's National Coal Board. Hundreds more are returning every day. "Follow me on the road to sanity," urged John Cunningham, a longtime local officer...
...Levesque declared last week that the goal of independence had to give way to bread-and-butter issues, he split his party and possibly jeopardized his eight-seat majority in Quebec's provincial parliament. Five cabinet ministers resigned, two legislators bolted, and half a dozen others threatened to quit the party. The defectors included Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau and Social Affairs Minister Camille Laurin, an author of the law that imposed French as Quebec's only official language...