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Word: quits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University of Minnesota, students said they voted for Ventura even though he had told them to quit looking for government handouts and put themselves through school. "I agree with him," said Andrew Labonte, 21, an advertising major who works 30 hours a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Rumble | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...panic centers. "In all of man's history," he has warned, "we have never been able to predict with such accuracy a worldwide disaster of this magnitude. The millennium clock keeps ticking. There is nothing we can do." But he has a few recommendations anyhow: buy gold and grain; quit your job; and find a remote cabin safe from the rioting hordes. He also recommends a two-year subscription (price: $225) to his newsletter, Remnant Review, an offer that appears to reflect a faith that, if nothing else, the mail will keep operating through 2000. As a subscriber incentive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of The World As We Know It? | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...learning disability and requires extra tutoring, and a toddler daughter. Though she had a daycare voucher, the woman had repeated difficulties with getting the government-provided van to pick her daughter up at the agreed-upon time. Eventually she had missed so muchschool that she was forced to quit for the time being...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: After Welfare | 1/13/1999 | See Source »

...nurses' aide training course at Bunker Hill Community College and is working nights. She is trying to obtain nighttime childcare through the DTA, and says she fears she will be forced to quit her job otherwise...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: After Welfare | 1/13/1999 | See Source »

...quite an instant classic in a league with "It depends on what your definition of is is," but it had promise as hairsplitting of a high order. For one thing, no one had charged that Monica Lewinsky was hit upon against her will, as Livingston implied. And the Livingston rationale ignored his good fortune in having Larry Flynt, not Ken Starr, with his subpoenas and a grand jury, pursuing him. Thus Livingston could cling to the claim that in a sting operation run by a desperate prosecutor, he was the kind of guy who would have come clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clinton In Us All | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

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