Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next. With the Democratic nomination apparently in hand, Mondale loafed about his woodsy $200,000 house in North Oaks, Minn., swatted a tennis ball and pondered his choice of running mate. His aides, however, spent much of last week fretting about his unruly rivals. Gary Hart would not quit. Jesse Jackson was making threatening sounds. The Mondale camp's worst fear was that the pair would form an alliance that could turn the Democratic Convention into a political brawl. Having won the war, Mondale's men spent the week maneuvering on all fronts to win the peace...
...excited and forget to write things down, and "everyone I interviewed ended up sounding like me. I did that with Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Eisenhower." The idea of Eleanor Roosevelt sounding like Erma Bombeck clearly had its bizarre appeal, but before anything truly lunatic could come of it, Erma quit the paper for good in 1953. She and Bill, by then a struggling high school social studies and American history teacher, had been married four years, and, she says, "I was sick of working. Putting on pantyhose every morning is not just whoopee time. My dream was to putter around...
Since last year's show, two of the largest home-computer makers have left that part of the business after losing millions of dollars. Texas Instruments quit, following an orgy of price cutting that saw its 99/4A computer, which had once sold for more than $1,000, fall to as little as $49. In February, Timex shut down when the sales of its machines that first sold for just $99 collapsed...
...Bolivia, the government move drew an angry response from former Finance Minister Flavio Machicado, who two weeks ago quit the Cabinet of President Hernan Siles Zuazo. Machicado charged that the President had caved in to pressure from the powerful Bolivian Cen tral Labor Union, which led an April gen eral strike to protest belt-tightening mea sures demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Said Machicado: "This renegotiation idea is absurd...
...Schelling is training his analytic guns on an entirely different problem--getting people to quit smoking. With the help of a $658,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation, Schelling this spring founded a new interdisciplinary center at the Kennedy School of Government to study cigarette smoking and to come up with policy suggestions to help smokers quit...