Word: quits
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...avoid a damaging political confrontation at home but also please the vast majority of Iraqis, who, according to the polls, want an American timeline for withdrawal. He might even be able to bolster the al-Maliki government, which has lost six Cabinet ministers, followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, who quit-nominally, at least-over the absence of a withdrawal timetable. Bush could simply say, "I agree with the goal set by Congress. I hope we can have all our combat troops out of Iraq by sometime next year, though we may not be able to do that...
...stranger to the performing arts.I was really involved in theatre in high school, and, here at Harvard, in the Freshman Musical. I haven’t been able to be as involved in college though as I have been in the past. I had to quit the Callbacks in order to do this.Departure from that a capella singing group was difficult for Jones, considering the extent of her dedication. Though she was excited at the opportunity to direct “Fabulation,” she says that her decision to leave the group was not an obvious or easy...
...companies alone will not be able to provide it. Improving education will take a commitment from Brazil's leaders. Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva recently admitted that Brazil was "the worst in the world" when it comes to education. A former union leader who quit school to sell peanuts and shine shoes, Lula told teachers in a speech March 15 that the old methods had clearly failed. "I don't think Brazil will be able resolve the problem of the stock of people who were left on the margins of the educational process using the normal traditional...
...references to weddings at all, the “Comments” section of the blog went wild. “This is your stupidest post yet. I don’t know why you are allowed to post on this BRIDAL blog, but I am going to quit reading it just to avoid your annoying, wholly non-wedding related posts,” one angered bride-to-be posted. The Observer and Bressman called it off. THE JUNGLEWhile Bressman chooses not to read too much into his experiences at The Observer, he proves that while new media outlets like...
...time of his breakthrough, Nakamura was an unknown engineer without a Ph.D. working for a tiny Japanese electronics company on Shikoku Island. His colleagues would tell him, "'You should quit. You wasted all our research money for 10 years,'" Nakamura remembers. "That just pissed me off. So I figured, if I'm going to quit anyway, I might as well do the research I've always wanted...