Word: quits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like any other good teacher, Jim Morris thought his students weren't working up to their potential. When kids on the high school baseball team he coached in Big Lake, Texas, complained that he was throwing too hard in batting practice, he told them to quit whining. After all, this was a team that had only three wins in each of the three seasons before Morris showed up in 1997. But the players knew their coach's fastball was major league scary. So when he gave them a pep talk about following their dreams, they challenged him to follow...
...Pippen wants to quit. He now refuses to play on the same team as Barkley, whom he called one of his best friends last season. Barkley even defended Pippen for having such a miserable season earlier this week...
...while you're cutting down on vice, quit smoking too with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's Freedom from Smoking Program (Harvard Vanguard Medical Association, 1611 Cambridge St.; 731-7311; $75 for members, $85 for nonmembers). The program includes seven 90-minute group sessions where about 14 people explore their reasons for quitting together. Each addict develops a personal plan, which usually involves heavy patch usage. Try the cold turkey group to break the habit together on the third session. Everything is more fun when you have company...
...Thank goodness Physical Phyllis quit smoking (731-7311)--now she can scale the wall at Boston Rock Gym (781-935-7325) without all the huffing and puffing! A yummy wrap at The Low-Fat-No-Fat Gourmet Cafe and Juice Bar (932-7676) finishes the afternoon off right...
Kaushik soon landed a job at Oracle, one of the Valley's blue-chip firms. Two years later, he quit to take a job at a hot start-up called CrossWorlds Software. Had he stayed at Oracle, "I would have made a lot of money. Not multimillions, but not pocket change either." Kaushik left CrossWorlds after a year--the company has yet to have its IPO--to start his own dot.com with three friends. "I thought starting my own company would complete my contribution to the world and my profession," he says. But after three months of trying to raise...