Word: quits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades, Sontag has been resolving to devote all her time to fiction -- and failing. "Essay writing is part of an addiction that I'm trying to kick. My last essay is like my last cigarette." She quit smoking two years ago, but there's still one more essay she plans to turn out, this one about intellectuals and Communism, taking as its point of departure the disillusioning trip that the writer Andre Gide made to the Soviet Union in 1936. And then there's a short book on Japan. And then . . . Well, at least the tube won't be distracting...
James Harvey should have quit while he was ahead. The unemployed Jacksonville construction worker was offered $1,500 by the Adolph Coors Co. last July after he claimed to have discovered a dead mouse in a 16-oz. can of the firm's beer. Harvey refused, demanding as much as $50,000 compensation for being subjected to an unexpected drinking companion...
Many local employers say that students who know there is no shortage of available jobs are often unreliable workers. Mandis says she has hired several student workers who quit after several days or even failed to show up at all, apparently because they had found other jobs...
...wire to set a new Olympic record of 47.19 sec. "When the race is over," Moses said later from the sidelines, "that's when you know you can't do it." But the bronze medalist -- whom Phillips praised as "my motivation, my incentive, my idol" -- insisted he would not quit the sport...
Although UMass had the game won late in the fourth quarter when David Mitchell busted through the Harvard defense for the score, Yohe and Co. didn't quit. With the battle over, the two generals were still dueling...