Word: quite
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Last year at Smith Swimming Center in Providence, R.I., the Tigers pulled out a tough 32-point victory over the Crimson, 564-532. But Harvard has since been hurt by both graduation, which took four significant point-scorers, and the loss of Scott Jaffe, who decided to quit the team after being a triple-winner...
Tower said he regards his weekend vow to quit drinking if he wins confirmation as "sacred...and I can assure you I will abide...
...stipulated when A.C.T. came to San Francisco that the local board must serve only as fund raisers, with scant say over what plays he chose, what actors he cast, or how he ran things. By the late 1970s, predictably, board members demanded more power. Ball refused, and ultimately they quit...
...understand that American patience with violent crime has been spent. Failure to deal effectively with crime has increased the public appetite for the death penalty. Conservatives must see that this society can be hard, even implacable, against criminals without killing them. If politicians will lower their voices and quit pandering to our worst fears and baser instincts, the search for common ground can begin...
Many of them, in fact, make considerable sacrifices to move into the classroom. When Tom Carlyle decided to become a teacher, he quit his job as a manager in a Manhattan publishing firm and invested $10,000 in a one-year program for career changers at Harvard's School of Education. Since 1986, he has been teaching high school math in the New York City public schools. His $30,000 salary is $5,000 less than he made in the private sector -- but $9,000 more than he would have made teaching math five years ago. Carlyle...