Word: quits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Guarnaccia said he has quit smoking hookah for the same reason he quit smoking cigarettes...
...have to read it again. Watching Cycle Four from the beginning for the umpteenth time, I could look for clues to reveal how Naima went from being the quiet, faux-hawked dancer no one seemed to notice to Top Model. (Incidentally, she recently had to quit a waitressing job because she got recognized too often while pouring her customers’ coffee...
...years, the Waifish Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova entranced critics with her quick, intense energy and poetic style in classic and contemporary productions, including Giselle, Swan Lake and Spartacus. In 1995 she took on another role when her husband, Bolshoi artistic director Yuri Grigorovich, quit amid a dispute with management over plans for his replacement. Bessmertnova and her fellow dancers refused to perform for a night. The historic strike caused the company's first cancellation in more than two centuries. She was 66 and reportedly had kidney trouble...
WHAT THIS MEANS While the study did not explain the results, it did suggest answers. African Americans were less likely to quit if they were of normal weight or lived with other smokers, hinting that their smoking could be related to worries about weight gain or lack of support in quitting. Younger Hispanics were least likely to quit, which suggests that age-specific messages might be helpful...
...listening to the commencement speech is the single most important moment in a Harvard student’s life. Last year’s speaker, Bill Gates, waxed so poetic about “appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity,” that hundreds of graduates quit the lucrative jobs awaiting them on Wall Street and set off to change the world. When U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced his eponymous plan for rebuilding Europe after the Second World War in his 1947 commencement address, there were almost certainly dozens of graduates still awake...