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...goals, it quickly turned into a discussion of money, and we realized that we had vastly different views," Grittinger says. She wanted to use two incomes to buy a big house, and Grittinger wanted to live on one income, thinking ahead to the day when one of them might quit work...
Within a few months of his encounter with Dickey, Bush quit drinking. Soon after, he sold his ailing company for a miraculous profit and moved his family to Washington, where he worked on his father's 1988 presidential campaign and, he has said, "earned his spurs" in the old man's eyes. He helped put together the group that bought the Texas Rangers baseball team and plotted a run for Governor. It was as if someone had thrown a cosmic switch and his future came into focus. "Let's face it, George was not real happy [in Midland]," says oilman...
...same boat," says Evans' wife Susie, who has known George since elementary school, "and everybody pulled together. When times were hard, we had dinner parties." At some of those parties, George drank more than was wise. "Usually the next morning," Laura Bush says, she would tell him he should quit. Spectrum president Paul Rea gently suggested the same thing...
...weren't that loud," says O'Neill. "But the next morning, nobody felt great." Contrary to some reports, Bush made no dramatic breakfast-table declaration about quitting. He said nothing--at first, not even to Laura. "It's easy to say, 'I quit,'" he says. "But this time I meant it." It wasn't until they got home that he told her he was finished with alcohol. "He just said, 'I'm going to quit,' and he did," Laura remembers. "That was it. We joked about it later, saying he got the bar bill and that...
...into the Gothic life-style, and I have seen many graphic films. I enjoy this subculture, but my parents raised me well enough so that I never felt the need to go on a shooting spree. If people were more involved with their kids and quit blaming pop icons for everything, we might be able to solve the problem before more lives are tragically lost. TRACY COCHRAN Powder Springs...