Word: retiree
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Dhanin Chearavanont isn't ashamed to say he wants to retire. Still putting in 14-hour workdays at age 65, the chairman and CEO of Charoen Pokphand Group (CP)--Thailand's one truly multinational corporation--says he has found time to meditate on the possibilities of voluntary idleness (he's...
If it weren't for the challenge of making it again in China, Dhanin says, he might have retired after the 1997 economic crisis. But he's preparing for the day when age reduces his role. His three sons attended top Western business schools and hold jobs at some of...
Lucky enough to have little to do with McNamara's war in Vietnam, Califano did get his hands dirty working with a group, run by Robert Kennedy, that was charged with eliminating Fidel Castro. It came up with some really bizarre ideas: "Attach incendiary devices to bats," which would then...
Superstar Jackie Chan usually avoids controversy as nimbly as he dodges flying fists. But when he commented recently on Taiwan's tumultuous presidential election, he executed an unrehearsed pratfall. Talking to reporters in Shanghai, Chan called the election "the biggest joke in the world." In Taiwan, Chan's remarks got...
By this time showy restaurants and "lobster palaces" were opening to cater to the new rich. The better places kept luxurious "bachelor apartments" upstairs to which the wealthy man about town, whether married or single, could retire after dinner with his latest eye candy. "A new unashamed morality was brewing...