Word: quits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the government tried to push through the bills by declaring that they affected whites only and therefore would be dealt with by the all-white chamber of the tricameral Parliament, the mixed-race Labor Party responded by threatening to quit the body. In a sudden, unexpected retreat, the government announced last week that it would withdraw the bills, rewrite them, and then submit them to all three houses of Parliament. The delay is considered only a temporary setback for Botha, who has ample time to force the legislation through the President's Council and into law before the national...
...argues that the U.S. semiconductor industry is collapsing because start-ups have siphoned off talented engineers from larger firms. Example: in 1981 a group of Intel executives started Seeq Technology (1987 revenues: $44.6 million) to develop sophisticated memory chips. Four years later, three Seeq employees specializing in such chips quit to form their own company, Atmel...
Since walking out the door is an obvious option to physical abuse, why do . singles stay in stormy relationships? "A big part of it is the phenomenon I call Too Much Invested to Quit," says James Koval, a therapist who counsels couples in Long Beach, Calif. "We as a society are focused on a product, and that product is a partner. To make a decision about leaving a relationship is extremely tumultuous because of the total sense of loss." Unwed couples also tend to hide their private violence from others -- perhaps even more so than marrieds. Says Abbie Meyering...
...other traits, more admirable, showed up in 1980 as well -- persistence, competitiveness, an unwillingness to quit. William Sloane Coffin, once Yale's chaplain, was an Andover classmate of Bush's and fellow Bones member at Yale, though they took separate paths afterward. (Coffin is now the head of SANE/ FREEZE, an antinuclear organization.) When Bush visited Yale during Coffin's chaplainship, he sent word he would like to play some squash with his old classmate. "Bring him on," Coffin crowed. They played a few games, Coffin winning and Bush getting more determined to win. Coffin was ready to call...
...BECOMES GRANDMOTHER -- are replacing zany eye-catchers -- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS USED MAP PREPARED BY SPACE ALIENS -- that reflect the best work of twisted minds. Ex-Fleet Streeter Sheila O'Donovan, known to Examiner readers as Lovelorn Columnist Sheela Wood, praises what she considers America's restrained tabloid sensibility. She quit a Hong Kong tabloid in protest after the editors put a large blob on the front page with the headline 20 CARS CRUSH CRAWLING CRIPPLE...