Word: quiteness
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...everyone in the Gore camp knew, even if Coelho had been healthy, he would have had to quit sooner or later. Gore's aides would have preferred him to pick a quieter moment (the Fourth of July would have been nice), but most didn't try to hide their jubilation when he left. Coelho had been a divisive figure inside Goreland, not so much because he fired top aides and cut off longtime advisers before the primaries (that was necessary) but because he was routinely imperious and ham-fisted in his dealings with staff. And he was a growing liability...
...Mary Tyler Moore) is speaking for herself when she complains, "I don't think people want to be with him." Conrad blames himself for his brother's death, even though the real murderers are the droves of psychopathic molecules composed of two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. He does quit the swim team, though it's too little, too late...
...Internship Bible? If I wanted to impress random strangers and resume readers I would have stayed in New York. As it is, I have two months of low stress life ahead of me. Hey, if my job gets too boring, they ain't paying me; I can quit...
...first glance, the higher courts seem considerably more sympathetic to Microsoft than was Judge Jackson. In 1998 the Court of Appeals dealt the Department of Justice a body blow by reversing Jackson's injunction ordering Microsoft to quit tying its Web browser to Windows. That decision has since been glorified by Microsoft attorneys, who see it as their salvation. But as Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein points out, "The court said it was writing without the benefit of a factual record." Now they've got 78 days' worth of testimony, much of it arguing that Microsoft's motivation was more...
...honest, no one ever talked to me about it," he says. "The freshman coach sort of expected me to quit, I think...