Word: quiteness
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...Paris suburb of Hauts-de-Seine from 1989 to '94 - fled France in 1995 after a bungled attempt to intimidate and blackmail investigating magistrate Eric Halphen. At the time, Halphen was heading an inquiry into alleged illegal rpr funding from kickbacks on public-housing contracts in the district. Halphen quit the judiciary in January, complaining that his seven-year investigation had been repeatedly sabotaged. Before leaving his Caribbean hideaway, Schuller told journalists that he intended to explain how "the system which magistrates have been investigating is not that of Councilor Didier Schuller, but that of a political party...
...dollars since last year--need not surrender that cash before the upcoming battle for control of Congress. The Democratic National Committee also has $30 million in soft money that it plans to spend quickly for a new headquarters. "It reminds me of the old drunk who swears he will quit drinking tomorrow, but he's going to get drunk tonight," says Representative Tom Davis, who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, the fund-raising arm for the House G.O.P...
...Warner started things rolling in October, when she refused to guarantee Flowers that she would remain her push athlete through the Olympic trials. Flowers quit, and went home to Alabama thinking her bobsled days were over...
...dropped out of Chapin 10 days before my senior year to train for the 1968 Olympics. When I didn't make the team, my parents were horrified. I quit singles, and in 1969 I skated only pairs. Then one day, my entire skating career ended. My partner, Jimmy Stuart, said, "I have one more year to compete in singles. I would like to try for the world team. I can't do it and train for pairs." It was too late for me to go back into singles. So it was over, over in literally...
...very shattering. Those first two or three years after I quit skating at 19, I was just so lost. I'd skated since I was 8 years old, and suddenly I was beginning all over again...