Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fully intends to keep the reins tight on the unions. He plans to start taxing unused land on Uruguay's huge ranches and to attract new capital with a stable peso. He also threatens to fire unnecessary bureaucrats, but in Uruguay no step involving jobs is quite that easy. There is, however, a measure before Congress that would give superfluous federal employees a year's salary just to quit...
...group's sound is saved by its great banks of horns (four horns out of a massive nine men in the group) except when these horn players indulge in their bland, meaningless solos. However, when the drummer latches on to a stirring beat, as on "I Can't Quit Her," the resulting music is very creamy and striking. Al Kooper, the founding father of the group, has left but his place has been taken by a swarthy singer who sways and bends elegantly...
...Cheap "Chitlings" (not the kind you purchase at a frozen-food counter) will taste rubbery unless they are cooked long enough. How soon can you quit cooking them to eat and enjoy them? a) 15 minutes, b) eight hours, c) 24 hours, d) one week (on a low flame...
...clouds over the Atlantic aboard Pan American Flight 55 last month, Ford Vice Chairman Arjay Miller leaned over to his companion and said he intended to quit. He said he had been invited to head Stanford University's Graduate School for Business effective next July. Miller recalls: "Mr. Ford understood why I wanted to go." So did other automen in Detroit. Miller's leavetaking had been expected since February, when Henry Ford II raided General Motors and came away with Semon E. Knudsen to replace him as president at Ford. Miller at 51 was shunted sideways into...
...four-letter man who worries only about his weight ("Five foot seven-and-a-half is a little short for 180 Ibs."), Lee is one of the most colorful champions golf has produced. "The only time I stop yakking," he says, "is when Im asleep. I even had to quit smoking on the golf course because I nearly choked to death while I was talking." After he won last week's Open at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y., with a 275 that tied Jack Nicklaus' record, somebody asked Trevino what he planned to do with...