Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When I was applying to graduate school, someone asked me if I was going to get married and quit," Kleckner recalls. "Most people in the building thought I was a secretary or technician...
...always skied for no other reason than "the fun of it." His father was encouraging but not insistent. Dave Mahre sadly quit apple growing 22 years ago and took a job managing a ski area in order to support his burgeoning family, which numbers nine children. The Mahre kids were customarily dressed from the lost-and-found at the White Pass lodge, but the scenery was rich. Although school was an hour and a half away, the ski lift was just outside the door. "We finished our homework on the bus," Phil says, "and were off skiing and hiking...
gold in the sport. "Cokie," as the hard-driven Oregonian is known to teammates, astonished observers two Olympiads ago by winning America's first medal (a silver) in the Finnish-and Soviet-dominated event, but he unexpectedly quit a 1980 Olympic race, prompting complaints that he was an arrogant loner. He says he would rather be "an anonymous person...
...March. But the company's products encountered problems, and in October Fortune's directors forced Friedman to resign as chairman and leave. Last week the fiery Jack Tramiel, who founded Commodore, the home-computer maker, abruptly quit. He had taken the firm from sales of about $50 million in 1977 to more than $1 billion last year...
Hours passed, dinner passed, Jim went to bed, and Lyle, over brandy, reflected on his lot. He had been a high school teacher in California, a respected one, and he had enjoyed the classroom but abhorred the system, for reasons he did not expand. He quit after 24 years and withdrew $40,000 from his state teachers' retirement account. He paid $103,000 for the inn, called Greenhurst. He was 54 years old. Barbara, a registered nurse, was 44. Greenhurst was 90. Bethel...