In failing health in recent years, Mr. Green quit New York for the tiny town of Petersham, Mass., where he devoted himself to the Landmarks Foundation, a nonprofit organization he founded to preserve sacred sites around the world.
Concern over the future made the Greens quit teaching high school in Grover, Colo., to move back to this isolated valley to raise cattle in 1980.
The Greens quit the government of Paavo Lipponen in protest, but it retains its comfortable majority.Kashmir twistsGovernments around the world urged nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to exercise restraint in their quarrel over Kashmir.
In 2006 it won the library association's Michael L. Printz award for young adult fiction and sold well enough that Mr. Green could quit his day job and focus on writing.
Then, at the end of last year, the same boss hired a "young fellow" as a second estimator, and Mr. Green tried to quit again.
After his indentured servitude at HP — which lasted the five years it took the company to come through with the promised green card — Grisha quit and promptly got himself hired for twice as much, as a quant at Morgan Stanley, building market models for mortgage traders.
Quit building golf courses in deserts, quit creating green grassy lawns in areas where water is scarce.
Add an order of fried green tomatoes ($2.95), then quit while you're ahead.
Mr. Green eventually had to quit his job at the printing office because of his leg problems.
In France the Socialists have reversed early promises and squeezed budgets, driving their erstwhile Green coalition partners to quit the government.
The idea that the White House has a problem with "tsars" is an obscure one that has become a front-burner in the last 72 hours, ever since Mr Jones quit his "green jobs" role in a flurry of controversy.
