Word: quiteness
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...looks as though older women with heart disease who want to avoid further cardiovascular problems may have to do it the old-fashioned way: eat right, exercise and quit smoking. The much touted alternatives of hormone-replacement therapy and antioxidant vitamins...
...were not on display in his presidential campaign. It was a frenzy of photo ops and criss-crossing messages, driven by the news cycle and the demands of interest groups. He pandered to South Florida by backing a bill to make Elian Gonzalez a permanent U.S. resident, and he quit talking about the environment when pollsters and consultants told him it could hurt him. Each week seemed to bring a new policy pronouncement, another gimmick to jump-start the campaign, which is why even his evolving wardrobe became a metaphor for a man who had no idea what he stood...
...knees if he doesn't think it is going to work." Even in telecom he has demonstrated a willingness to pull the plug on failing ventures, as he did in 1994 with Rabbit, an ill-fated early phone service, after more than a year of operation. "Knowing when to quit is very important, and keep this in mind in any kind of business," he told Fortune magazine last year...
...commander in the West Bank, he left his job two years into the first intifadeh, saying he'd had enough. To left-wingers, those are admirable stands. Yet then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin persuaded Mitzna to withdraw the Lebanon dismissal letter, and people close to him say he quit the West Bank job because he was just tired of criticism from the left and right. Labor rival Haim Ramon says Mitzna is all "bullshit and baloney." Mitzna left the army in 1993 and later that year became mayor of Haifa, one of the few places in Israel where Jewish...
...Black quit the team, Schires was outperfomed, Rose was injured and thus Fitzpatrick became a household name—at least in the houses of Dunster, Lowell and Currier...