Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year. Kim, one of the leading opponents of the authoritarian rule in his homeland, spent the year at the Center for International Affairs, writing and lecturing. Another refugee from politics at Harvard this year was David R. Gergen, a former top Reagan Administration White House aide Gergen quit his post in Washington in December to take up a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics in the spring semester...
...advised a variety of federal agencies, served on the Presidential Committee on the National Medal of Science, and been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow from 1947 to 1963. But, he says, "Most of all I like to be a professor of physics. Most administrative jobs require that you quit the primary job of being a professor. The Corporation job lets me do both...
...disturbing that she was unable to sleep at night. While on duty, however, Ferraro was a tough and effective prosecutor. "All the cops loved her," recalls Nick Ferraro. After four years, she was emotionally drained but politically invigorated: the experience, Ferraro says, made her liberal on social issues. She quit and ran successfully for Congress under the slogan FINALLY, A TOUGH DEMOCRAT...
...ability to renegotiate its $2.4 billion in foreign debt, because lenders have insisted that it first reach agreement on an austerity program with the IMF. But Dominican leaders, fearful that IMF demands for a sharp hike in gasoline prices would spark a new round of violent protests, decided to quit the talks...
...four winners-a housewife, a machinist, a manicurist and a hospital maid-are understandably elated: each will receive $263,095 a year, minus the 20% federal tax bite, for the next 21 years. Shortly after hearing that she had won, Weonta Fitzgerald, 64, quit her job as a cleaning woman at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y. "I was broke, now I'm rich!" she exulted. But the biggest winner by far did not have to wait in line: New York State, which stands to reap an estimated $11 million in education funds from that one giant jackpot alone...