Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that many nations fail to back us in the U.N. lends strong support to the demand that this country quit the international organization [NATION, March 26]. The indignity of our position in that body makes our continued membership untenable...
Smith, who had top-security clearance, quit his Army job in 1980. Married and the father of four children, considered by neighbors to be a good family man, he dabbled in various real estate investments but declared bankruptcy in the summer of 1982. An affidavit filed in court by FBI Agent Michael J. Waguespack contends that Smith has admitted taking many trips in 11981 and 1982 to Japan, which was then a hotbed of KGB activity, according to the testimony of a Soviet defector. On three occasions in the course of those trips, Smith met Victor Okunev, a Soviet consular...
...confirmed until a special prosecutor finishes investigating Meese's sloppy financial dealings, a process likely to take at least six months. Nor is there officially a Deputy Attorney General to fill in during the interim; Edward Schmults, who had been handling the daily operations of the Justice Department, quit that post last February and has not been replaced...
...Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer and consultant to the National Security Council, Thomas Reed, quit their posts after allegations that they were involved with insider trading of stocks...
Bolger, 61, who joined the post office in 1941 as a clerk, has spent his entire career with the system. He is expected to quit at year's end for a job in private industry. Along with the improved efficiency, Bolger's six years as Postmaster General have won more friends for the U.S. mail. A Roper poll last year showed that most Americans give the Postal Service higher marks than the telephone company, insurance firms or hospitals...