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Five years later: you have a spouse and a kid on the way. Can't quit now; you have a family to take care of. "Just a few more years," you say, "then I can quit this job and do something fulfilling...
Twenty years later: Can't quit now. You have a mortgage, orthodontist bills, and tuition bills are just around the corner. Your next promotion is coming up soon. Besides, if you leave your job, you lose more than a guaranteed income; you lose health insurance, retirement benefits--your security...
...healthy lifestyle matters to the class. Fewer than one in 10 never exercise, with a majority working up a sweat for more than three hours weekly. Nine of 10 do not smoke. One-third of the Class has quit smoking since college...
Will S.I.'s less tangible legacies survive equally intact? Says Si's son Wynn, 35, a computer programmer in Boston who quit the family business: "The force of my grandfather's personality is imprinted on the entire family. It's a general drive that has come down to succeed and to be a family. The original unity still holds almost completely. But we're only up to the third generation. We have seen many other families that have fractured...
...searched his premises in vain for accounting ledgers; he did discover a contract for the purchase of 22 new Toyotas, for $392,000, all apparently driven off by army members. The incoming mayor of Managua learned that $52,192.53 was distributed as bonuses to six employees, some of whom quit promptly when he took office. The pilfering has been so blatant that ex-President Daniel Ortega does not even try to deny it: "What is being called plundering was nothing more than a decision to benefit the people...