Word: quit
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...down Broadway. Teachers rarely stopped them, but school authorities knew what she and her friends were up to. One morning Sarah went to the school office to discuss getting back on track but got a surprise. One of the administrators asked her point-blank, "Why don't you just quit school?" "I was just a kid," says Sarah with a laugh. "It was like they said the magic words. So I told them, 'O.K.!' And I left...
...Food and drink. Charging for meals has become routine. American Airlines has eliminated even the free peanuts, charging $4 for a snack tray instead. Its commuter cousin, American Eagle briefly experimented with charging $1 for soft drinks in January, but quit the program when customers balked...
Meanwhile, the more soft-spoken Tunes was getting frustrated with his minimum-wage job at a local Dunkin Donuts. When he quit, Luny recommended his friend to his boss at Harvard. In September 2001, Tunes started work as a dishwasher in Leverett...
...Sunnis already committed to reject Jaafari's nomination, the Rice visit seemed to embolden even the prime minister's Shi'ite rivals: For the first time, the largest faction of Jaafari's Shi'ite alliance, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), called on him to quit. (Should Jaafari accede, SCIRI's own Adel Abdul-Mahdi is in pole position to replace him as the candidate of the Shi'ite list...
...least to watch it happen to someone else. Nanny 911, Supernanny, The Biggest Loser, Celebrity Fit Club, Wife Swap, Cold Turkey--in all of them, someone comes in to impose "tough new rules" on participants who stand in for us in weak-willed lumpy America. Lose weight! Quit smoking! Be a better parent! Millions of Americans gladly, masochistically sit down to be lectured by their televisions about the very vices--gluttony, laziness, inattentiveness to loved ones--that they bought televisions to indulge. If there is one thing we love more than TV, it is being ashamed of loving...