Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another important preliminary condition for plunging into a new life is self-awareness. "Be honest with yourself," says Robert Wacker, a San Luis Obispo, Calif., financial planner who worked with Cotton. "Are you the kind of person who wants to travel to Europe after retiring, or would a trip to the lake to fish be enough...
...same: better to decide than drift. "Even if you don't know exactly what you should do after retiring early, examine your strengths and desires and take it from there," says Arron. This is what Sam Cotton did. He enjoyed sales and marketing and always considered himself a "people person." When a friend offered him the chance to work for her mortgage-banking firm, Cotton had a good feeling about the career change, even though he had never considered the idea before...
...conscience, now Trade and Industry Minister, for "a public effort to recognize our needs." At the White House ceremony, the P.L.O. leader offered a new empathy for Israelis: "We are fully committed to whatever is required from us to achieve real security and constant peace for every Israeli person and for the Israeli people...I will do everything I can so that no Israeli mother will be worried if her son or daughter is late coming home...
...decision falls like doom on Conrad Hensley, 23, the married father of two who has a $14-an-hour job on the night shift hauling frozen food out of a Croker Global warehouse to waiting delivery trucks. Conrad is someone new in a Wolfe novel, a totally good person who wants nothing more out of life than to buy a modest condominium for his family and establish a well-ordered, bourgeois existence. After the most riveting fictional scene ever set in a 0[degree]F freezer unit--here the competition is nonexistent--Conrad learns that he has been laid...
...fear. Do you see what I'm saying?" Roger sees. But the rumors are out there already; a local Internet gossip sheet is adding new details almost daily. Quickly, the city's white business interests and black leadership huddle and come up with a plan. The only person who can defuse or at least damp down this problem is...Charlie Croker...