1.   A year later, their daughter, Sarah, was born, and Mrs. Immelt quit to become a full-time homemaker.

2.   Field practiced law for eight years before quitting to become a full-time mom.

3.   He replaces George Warrington, who quit to become head of New Jersey Transit.

4.   He quit to become president of MCA.

5.   Holmgren almost quit to become a high school teacher after two years as a high school assistant on a team that lost every game.

6.   Putnam Investments Inc. said the head of its domestic equities group, Peter Carman, quit to become head of global asset management at Citicorp.

7.   Riley quit to become president and chief executive at Leggat McCall Properties, a closely held commercial real estate company based in downtown Boston.

8.   Starr angered critics on both ends of the political spectrum last year when he announced that he would soon quit to become dean of Pepperdine Law School in California.

9.   When she finally quit to become a stay-at-home mother, reality hit hard.

10.   Midway through the season, Sisson abruptly quit to become the assistant baseball coach at the University of Georgia.