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...televised address Wednesday, Adamec had said he would quit if the opposition did not stop presenting "ultimatums...
Even with Mitchell's efforts, Brandeis would not quit. A short leaner by David Brooks cut the Harvard lead to 44-41 with 2:43 to play...
...Louis. Though her paycheck was essential for paying the family's bills, she says, her husband "expected the same as if I was a housewife. He told me that if I couldn't take care of the needs at home and have his food ready, I should quit." Instead Brown quit her marriage. Among the upper middle class, male rhetoric may sound enlightened, but the bottom line is much the same. In The Second Shift, a study of 50 mostly middle-class, two-career couples published this year, Arlie Hochschild, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, found that...
...locker room, Pete said to me, 'You have to go for the hat,'" said Vukonich, who has never tallied a collegiate hat trick. "But I told him that I don't score hat tricks. I get two goals and then I quit...
...stress stemming from accusations that he gave money through a third party to a player at his last school, Minnesota. Holtz emphatically denies it. Now one hears the word burnout in South Bend. "Football encompasses his whole life. It's everything," says Kevin Holtz. Says Ara Parseghian, who quit, worn out, after eleven successful years: "I told him all summer, 'Please pace yourself.' " When asked what lessons he draws from the experiences of Parseghian and Leahy, who also was totally consumed by the job, Holtz merely says, "I'm a slow learner...