When his boss told him to quit working on lasers, he continued in secret.
It ordered G.E. and Rolls to quit working on their engine for up to 90 days, pending a final resolution in Congress.
An entrepreneur and onetime New York Congressional candidate (he ran as a Republican against the incumbent, Ed Koch), Sprague had quit working on a Ph.D. in economics at Columbia to start a chicken farm in Iran.
A8 OBITUARIES B7 Sir Joseph Rotblat A physicist who was the only scientist to quit working on development of the atomic bomb for moral reasons, and who won the Nobel Peace Prize a half-century later for his worldwide campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, he was 96.
"I think this is a victory," says Bohdan Paczynski of Princeton University, who quit working on gamma-ray bursts several years ago for lack of progress in the field.
To McGrath, the discontent in her district is rooted in the belief that both parties have quit working on behalf of the common voter.
Her sometimes business partner, Mike Bade, is an animation director who quit work to focus on what the two are calling "America for President".
I had seen what could happen when a woman traded in her independence for a spouse's support: There was the fashion-designer acquaintance whose wealthy husband left her after she developed a brain tumor, and a lawyer friend whose venture-capitalist mate encouraged her to quit work to write, then walked out on her after the birth of their second child.
After she quit working for agencies and depended on private referrals to work out of her home, her income hovered around $30,000 a year.
He quit work altogether on the Palazzo Farnese in 1605 but subsequently produced some of his finest religious paintings, notably Domine, Quo Vadis?
