Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rabin still enjoys strong support within Labor; if Peres does not deliver on his pledge, Rabin could succeed in scuttling a national unity agreement. In addition Mapam, a leftist party that holds six of Labor's 44 seats in the 120-member Knesset, has threatened to quit the Labor alignment if a Labor-Likud government is formed...
...ethic. We believe in hard work. Dallasites are very generous, give millions to every charity you can name. But they don't believe in the dole." I told Clements about a Texas delegate from Woodville who said she turned Republican after the people she hired for her hotel quit on her because they could earn more on welfare. Clements nodded: "She was saying to you: 'These people have no pride...
...invited the U.S. to talk in Vienna in September about, among other issues, banning antisatellite weapons in outer space. The U.S. accepted but could not swallow Soviet preconditions, so the talks have not convened. Instead, relations have settled back into the jittery holding pattern that began when the Soviets quit nuclear-arms talks late last year to protest the deployment of new U.S.-built Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. In a direct response to that deployment, the Soviets last week announced that they are testing ground-launched cruise missiles of their...
...Government spends $2.3 billion a day and has so many departments, agencies and committees that a few years ago the experts quit counting after listing more than a thousand. Reagan has little notion how it all works but a lot of feeling that it is too big and too expensive and tries to do too much for too many people. Reagan believes a little neglect may be good...
...worth, meaning, of course, you owe more than you got, is a term that dogs cotton farmers. "Fellow came by here the other day," a farm-supply dealer outside Lubbock once explained, "and told me that if he could just get back up to broke, he'd quit. Trouble is, he has to get back up to broke first...