Word: retiree
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The announcement comes as the Board of Overseers prepares to meet Sunday morning to rubber stamp the Corporation’s designated replacement for member Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45, who announced last December that he would retire at the end of the academic year.
What Lopez has done—returning to the field with his vision severely impaired—is virtually unprecedented in baseball. Former Minnesota Twins outfielder Kirby Puckett had to retire when glaucoma took away his sharp eyesight.
WELL, YOU SEEM AWFULLY PRODUCTIVE AT THE MOMENT. A year from now, people will say the idea that this guy was going to retire is a laugh. I've got three novels to finish up [in] this Dark Towers cycle that I've been publishing since 1982. There's a...
WON'T YOUR FANS BE CRUSHED IF YOU REALLY RETIRE? They might be crushed, but think of all the other people in the publishing business, in the writing business, who will breathe a sigh of relief and say, "At last--he shut up!"
Andrew Carnegie was another poster boy for nondiversification. He advised putting all your eggs in one basket--"then watch that basket." Carnegie's eggs were made of steel. Fast-forward to today, when average workers have become rich at Microsoft and Dell by loading up on their employers' stock (thus...