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...really a lot of fun to play. I quit swimming when I was in high school because I found it was a little too individually oriented--I was really tired of just swimming up and down lanes. It's not a real team-oriented sport. Track and swimming are the two sports where a lot of the competition is individual...
...week before the investigations subcommittee chaired by Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan. For example, said Hinchman, Deaver actively supported a proposal, later accepted by the Reagan Administration, that the U.S. and Canada appoint special envoys to deal with the acid-rain problem. Less than a week after he quit his White House job, Deaver began talks with Canadian officials that eventually led to a $105,000 contract to lobby for Canada...
...started in 1982 when Vinod Khosla, a Stanford Business School graduate, brought together McNealy, a former classmate, and Bechtolsheim, a Stanford engineering graduate student who had developed an impressive prototype for a workstation. McNealy recalls that Khosla persuaded him over a dinner of McDonald's Big Macs to quit his job as director of operations at Onyx Systems, a computer company, and help found a new firm. The next recruit was Joy, a Ph.D. candidate in engineering at Berkeley and a leading computer- software designer...
Taking an M.A. in sociology from Northwestern in 1970, Ford went west to law school at the University of California, Berkeley, because "I needed more credentials and equipment." After nearly three years of providing legal aid to welfare clients back in Chicago, he quit, frustrated by the low pay and disillusioned with the possibilities for creating change through the federal courts. He decided to go into real estate instead...
...similar exodus has occurred at the American University Hospital, once one of the most prestigious teaching facilities in the region. In April, Dr. Dennis Alexander, a research lecturer, became the last Westerner to quit the hospital staff. "In the past year morale has gone," he says. "At present, the hospital is just barely viable." Administrators estimate the 420-bed facility's annual loss at about $8 million...