Word: quit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most effective thing Cone's mentors can do for now is support the guys who are making an effort to reform themselves, like Khodaydad. "If the coalition left I would quit," he says. "There is no way to fight with this leadership. We would have no food and no ammunition. We would have to be like the other commanders, driven to stealing in order to sustain ourselves. It would be better to stay at home." And Afghanistan would be the more dangerous...
...increase their risk for caffeine intoxication, a condition that causes symptoms like nervousness, insomnia, tachycardia and psychomotor agitation. Caffeine intoxication is not uncommon: according to a 1998 study in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 7% of caffeine users have experienced it. The symptoms usually abate quickly when people quit caffeine, but in rare cases the symptoms can lead to death...
...truck drivers, Jan Mohammad, 45, was ready to quit, even though his family desperately needed his $100 monthly salary. "I am so fed up," he said. "[Taliban leader] Mullah Omar says if you transport goods for the Americans, I will kill you. But the government security agencies take off their uniforms at sunset and rob me. There is no salvation...
Other goodies: T-Mobile's 3G network was faster and more reliable than AT&T's (Apple's carrier) in my New York City-based tests. The speakerphone is louder and clearer than the iPhone's. And the removable battery will save you money and time should it ever quit on you - instead of bringing the whole device in to be repaired, you can just swap out the battery yourself...
Irish emigration is nothing new, of course. From the millions who fled poverty and famine over the last century and a half to the many thousands who have regularly quit the country in search of work right up to the end of the 1980s, Ireland's best and brightest have a long history of leaving in search of opportunity and sunnier climates. But a decade and a half of red-hot growth all but wiped out large-scale emigration, and Ireland has instead found itself a destination for immigrants from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe...