Word: quite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Ventura first stole the spotlight as a populist icon, he was catapulted to greater prominence earlier this month when Patrick J. Buchanan threatened to quit the Republican Party and run for president on the Reform Party's presidential ticket...
...running back, Menick will have some competition. Although Damon Jones has quit in part because of a persistent groin injury, Murphy said Harvard is in an "enviable position...
...Harvard guards quit or resign, University officials say they will be replaced with guards from SSI or another contracting agency. So the proprietary force can only get smaller...
...governor's comments have prompted the outgoing chair of the Reform Party, Rusell Verney, to call for Ventura to quit the party. Religious leaders are understandably upset; Pat Robertson diplomatically said Ventura was "off his rocker" at a Christian Coalition convention last week. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) called Ventura a "bigot." As his comments were reported in Minnesota over the weekend, Ventura's approval ratings fell 19 points. But Ventura's numbers are still high; 54 percent of Minnesotans approve of the job Ventura is doing as governor...
...weapons; then he did the same early in the summer by ejecting Pakistan-backed guerrillas from the Kargil region of Kashmir. And the early election wasn't brought about by popular discontent; the BJP government lost its majority when a controversial actress at the head of regional party had quit the coalition after Vajpayee refused to shield her from corruption charges - a situation that engendered sympathy for the BJP among the meager 56 percent of voters who bothered to go to the polls...