Word: quit
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...result in true change. In Qixia, the area in eastern China's Shandong province from where my visitors hailed, 57 village chiefs were elected in 1999; local Communist Party secretaries refused to hand over power, however. After spending two years locked out of their own offices, the 57 quit en masse. Soon after, a Qixia official told TIME the situation was "completely resolved...
...Bellow hasn't quit his day job, either, as executive editor-at-large at Doubleday Books. But he is as enthusiastic about TNP as if he were running Random House. "The New Pamphleteer is really just a couple of book editors who have decided they want to do something different and fun for the hell of it. Whether that makes us a viable business remains to be seen...
...immediate resignation can assist the institution's immediate recovery." Israel's presidency is a symbolic rather than an executive position, but it's precisely because the president is meant to symbolize patriotic unity and shared values above politics that the rape allegations have prompted calls for Katsav to quit. The president's lawyers dismiss the charges as false, alleging that they were trumped up by his political enemies. Earlier, Katsav had accused "A" of trying to blackmail him. Stay tuned for what promises to be a long-running political soap opera...
...article “Scrapped Holiday Shuttles Stir Talks” (Dec. 15, news) discusses the Undergraduate Council’s decision to cease operating airport shuttles, and suggestions by some students that the UC should reenter this business. The UC quit shuttles (and other services, such as UC Boxes) for a good reason: The Council is very bad at providing them. The Council would be unwise to return to a former arena of its failure...
...joke until two years later. By then I was playing the game 16 hours a day. I'd gained 30 pounds. I didn't have a job. The end came one weekend when I played a marathon session, which I only interrupted for trips to Dunkin' Donuts. I quit, lost the weight, and put my life back in order. But when WoW premiered in 2004, it promised to be the MMOG that allowed you to have a life. The game even gives bonuses to players who don't log in for periods of time. Its loading screen features quotes like...