Word: posterize
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...hard to believe that just two years ago, all the talk was of leaving the rat race early. Cocky young Internet entrepreneurs were poster children for that movement. Working to 65 was for losers. After all, you can get early, albeit reduced Social Security benefits starting at 62. By the late '90s some 73% of retirees had opted to take early benefits, compared with just 18% in 1960. You can begin to take penalty-free IRA and 401(k) distributions at age 59 1/2--and even earlier under certain circumstances. Many companies start offering retiree health benefits at 55. And when...
...face of an upturned blossom, but she was born under the sign of the lion and her heart belonged to Hercules. The first-grader adored Disney's version of the hero and hung a poster of him over her bed. So Samantha Runnion, 5, reacted as her idol would have when a stranger first asked her to help find his chihuahua and then--as she bent down to show how small the dog might be--carried her into his car. She fought with all the might of her tiny arms and legs, and screamed to her friend, "Help me! Tell...
...send people cranky e-mails," he says with a grin. He says he has no intention of harming anyone. It's unclear what impact the decision in his case will have on the broader issue of patients' rights. If he wins, the "psychiatric survivors" movement may have a new poster boy, and other states might look more carefully at patients who may be sick or may just be antisocial. Of course, finding the line between the two is the trick. What Yoder may tell us is that we're a long way from figuring out the difference between being...
...some $2 billion) and as sole owner of his firm, he is often counted as the richest. But in such lists, the name Pierre Cardin is often forgotten. Cardin's strategic decision to put his name on over 1,000 different products may have made him the poster child for bad brand management, but it put him in the top three with Armani and Lauren - Cardin also brings in over $1 billion in sales. And Cardin has one thing that the others don't - global recognition. Cardin licensed his name in countries like Japan (in 1957) and China...
...Behind it was another, and then another. As I panted upward, suddenly the van whirred into sight. Did I want a lift after all? Please! That night, after some exhilarating seaside riding, I dined on fresh scallops at a trendy Lunenburg restaurant and slept tucked into an antique four-poster in a Victorian...