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We may have just retired (13) people or created (13) new job openings in Missouri.

Patrick Fields

Extra expenses are needed to cover the arrangements for retired personnel and newly employed personnel.

Ding Jiye

I wrote two political letters this morning - as a retired country gentleman, who now teaches at the university, and writes books.

Arthur Hertzberg

Our goal is to get it retired by the All-Star Game, ... We're starting a national campaign.

Fernando Mateo

It's not going to happen. He's 100 percent retired.

Mark Higgins

That's what should be done. We want these animals retired.

Lisa Lange

The Army understands that a retired sergeant major made a complaint against the current Sergeant Major of the Army for sexual assault and harassment.

Army Sgt.

But the Stanley Cups, the Summit series, the Hall of Fame and now having my jersey retired - it couldn't end up better.

Yvan Cournoyer

We don't have enough information or expertise to supervise a finance director. We just spent two years looking for a finance director as good as (the retired) Mike McPhail. As soon as they heard (it was a charter officer), they were turned off immediately.

John Simmonds

We have a lot of retired women. We all keep pretty busy.

Sue Allen

Maybe I'll be retired by then.

Jerry Warren

A retired gentleman called and said he was going to cook Thanksgiving for his ex-fiancée, who was from 30 years ago, ... They were rekindling over turkey dinner and he hadn't really cooked before.

Carol Miller

Unfortunately, you need a storm to hit and cause a considerable amount of destruction for it to be retired.

Chris Vaccaro

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Richard Armour

The quality of the jury has to change. We can't have retired filmmakers deciding which film should be judged the winner in its category. The biggest problem is that we have dinosaurs at the helm of affairs, with mindsets stuck in the 1920s.

Sudhir Mishra

Couples need to rebuild their relationship. Retired men still tend to act like the lord and master.

Sayoko Nishida

You're a long time retired.

Ian Botham

I retired Michael Brodie with one punch and I see the same happening to my opponent here.

Scott Harrison

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

I think different people have different things to offer. As a retired police officer, I feel I bring certain experience to the table.

George Hughes

I will have things to do like most retired folks, but I hope to work when I want to, not have to.

Larry Hopkins

Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted?

Alyn Mccauley

We can't expect them to do it for free forever. It's no different than us paying a retired Army general to talk about the war, or to retain ... a retired FBI agent to talk about the latest crime trends.

Chris Hansen

In my opinion, he's the only one in this franchise who should have a retired number.

Larry Dierker

We have active and retired members who participated in the largest rescue in this nation's history, and they want that site respected for what it is.

Patrick Lynch

Of course I never retired from housework.

Agnes Mattox

This has been an enormous wake-up call for people who thought when they retired five years ago they had plenty of money to live on, and now $400 to $500 of cash flow a month is going to health care premiums.

Jess Hurst

This is one of the parts that was written into the law. We actually worked with (retired Sen.) Ben Nighthorse Campbell on this. The government cannot just kill a soldier on a piece of paper without physical evidence.

Pat Taylor

At the same time, he's a retired athlete who is very much enjoying being with his children and working with charities. And he just got engaged. We'll just have to see.

Mark Higgins

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Tony Benn

We get families with kids and retired people, and I'm sure they're all on fixed incomes where they can't afford that extra for gas, so I can understand that.

Lisa White

Tremendously organized person. He was passionate about the lake he moved to and retired to and wanted to maintain it for future generations.

Bob Long

Twenty-six years later, both as lieutenants, they retired the same day.

Clint Norred

He traveled all over there, and when he finally retired, he retired in Victoria and built the first home in Victoria — Tod House in Oak Bay.

Laurence Knight

I retired this next song in 1978.

John Prine

When my husband retired, my son took over. My son and grandson are still growing sugar beets. I even have a great grandson who has started farming.

George Green

The idea of the Clean Air Act is that you make clean air by making new plants clean and the old ones would retire. What has happened is that the old plants have not retired.

Rebecca Stanfield

With strong positive free cash flow, debt can be retired, new products developed and dividend payments increased.

Wayne Thorp

He's done well; he's been in the district for more than 30 years. He's retired once, and we hired him back.

Brad Horton

I have heard other leaders in the justice system say that they will be retired before this is over.

Michael Judge

Bob told me that had he known playing softball would be so much fun, that he would have retired much sooner to enjoy playing the game.

Jerry Walker

That's something we as retired officers, existing officers, have to look into to see if we can do something to control that.

Danny Thomas

There will be retired cheesemakers to say what to look for in cheese, how to use it, how the cheese industry grew and some of the old equipment.

Dave Marsh

I retired so I would have more time. Now I'm even busier than I was before.

Wayne Gould

Allen Clark has ruined a lot of careers through his tactics, and I could see what was going on in my case so I retired at the end of December 2003, ... Once he gained power and notoriety, it went on from there and not many people out here were sorry to see him resign.

Kevin Dean

William Jordan was a retired professor in the college of education who became well known during his retirement as a speaker.

Dorsey Sergent

I don't think Mr. Rather was reckless, ... Just as they broke the mold when they made him in Texas, I think they broke the mold (for his type of hurricane coverage) when Dan retired.

Steve Capus

They procrastinated a long time. Everybody else in Montreal who made the Hall of Fame had their jersey retired. His jersey should have been hanging up in the old Forum. That was the mecca.

Dan Bouchard

I'm retired, man. I'm loving it. Just being a bum. I kind of like it.

Kirby Puckett

Ralph stayed here even after he retired, and he could have lived anywhere. He said it was like the Midwest with better weather.

Lewis Greene

We are losing the battle and he will not make Cheltenham. I will have to talk to the owners, but he will probably be retired.

Jonjo O'neill

He was retired, and he loved the lake. He had sold his boat, so he figured this was a way to be out on the lake and enjoying it.

Al Dardis

Even when he retired, I think people expected him to go into the woodwork.

Sue Davis

Every dog and cat in the neighborhood is getting killed one-by-one, and it's really not an exaggeration, ... They've gotten all the chickens and a dog behind my house. Some of the people here are retired, and their animals are like their kids.

Charles Newman

He's good enough for me. I won't say he's a superhorse because you're never a superhorse until you're retired. Any horse can be beaten on any given day.

Angel Cordero, Jr.

From November to December, we were living a retired life. We didn't have anything to do, but we're New Yorkers! Something has to happen - something must go on!

Neerja Pomal

We do everything together. I'm a homemaker and he's retired. It's not like we're in a contest against each other.

Rosa Elkins

Look at the Broncos. . . . They haven't won a playoff game since John Elway retired, whether it's Brian Griese or Jake Plummer.

Chris Myers

That's the reason I haven't retired yet, ... I want to see it work.

Richard Haney

I retired from the ministry with some heart trouble. I'm supposed to be limited in my activity, but the Lord gave me some extra soup, or I have some extra stupidity, but I'm doing just fine.

Rev. Dave Rawley

I'm retired, and I've got to do something, ... It gives you a good feeling when you're there, saving lives.

Bill Collins

If I retired today, this would be the one thing that I'd talk about forever.

Randy Hutto

I really retired from the Feet of Flames show because I had already begun work on a new show in my mind.

Michael Flatley

(But) it's been his plan all along to run for Thomas' seat when he retired.

Dan Brennan

My husband retired two years ago and I have two wonderful grandchildren that I plan to do fun things with.

Mary Rich

When Christopher got his license it had the organ donation on the back. My husband is a retired firefighter and Christopher had seen and heard a lot about accidents and what happens to people, and he was very aware of what problems there are and that is something he wanted to do. So he is still helping people.

Sandy Nelson

He ran it until 2001 and then retired.

Marc Danley

He loved his job. Even after he retired, he kept spreadsheets with all his household bills.

Thomas Sutton

I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired.

Frank Serpico

I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years, ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

Bart Cummings

Baby boomers do not consider themselves old, and many of them think of AARP as an association for retired people. So they're resistant.

Mark Beach

I think what they're doing for College for Kids is magnificent. These retired football players, baseball players and all these athletes seem to be getting into this.

Wilson Pickett

Delta going bankrupt is bad for Atlanta, and the people who will be impacted the worst are the retired people.

Dean Booth

He loved to meet with people, see how things were going, ... Even though he was retired, he still had a big presence.

Jim Boyd

It's a shame. He finally retired after all that hard work, and he won't be able to enjoy it.

Bill Doniel

He's in the mould of (retired Blue Bulls No 8) Anton Leonard.

Dick Muir

He was hit hard by the hurricane. He was retired and now he is working again because of this.

Carol Dutton

My dad still comes up every day, so he's more like semi-retired. Mom still comes up a couple days a week to help clean or bread chicken.

Marc Danley

She made a commitment to the Air Force when she married Jim, and has continued that commitment even after he retired. She loves the job and loves making a difference in the lives of those with whom she works.

Joseph Brown

Our fund is ideal for someone four to five years away from retirement and currently in a high-income tax bracket. It gives them cash flow for about four years with very little tax effect. Then, when the depreciation runs out, it comes at a time when they've retired and fallen into a lower tax bracket anyway.

Allen Hirsch

I'm an old-school guy. Most of the people who run the wishbone are either dead or retired.

Dan Newbill

I'll be the first to tell you, I'm a great fan, but I've got opinions. I'm not going to second guess a coach's decision, but I will say where to attack and from what angle, ... (Coaching) is still in my blood. I retired when I still loved it.

Lisa Love

My sergeant said, 'What are you ever going to need computers for in police work?' I should mention that he retired very shortly after that.

Tim Schewe

There will be a steady exchange of information between Loyola and the district. Most supervisors are retired Chicago Police officers.

Bernard Ward

One of the proudest days of my life will be to see Mrs. [Vera] Clemente with her three children watching that No. 21 being retired.

Fernando Mateo

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

Dick Cheney

We always have concerns about him coming to work but he loved his work so much, he was going to do it until he retired.

Daniel Merideth

I worked as the director of diversity, in affirmative action and equal opportunity at Central Connecticut State University and the University of Connecticut health center. I?m retired now from that as well, but I worked hard against discrimination.It?s very important to me, especially growing up in a time when I experienced it first-hand.

Archie Savage

Half the people in Depoe Bay are retired people on fixed incomes. They don't make lot of money - they don't have a lot of money - and we're in the same boat.

Katy Mckim

An active duty general is on very thin ice to offer any criticisms, negative comments, about the secretary of defense. Once a general is retired, however, the gloves can come off.

Joseph Dawson

When we first started the program, the supervisor had to be a retired correctional officer. Anyone we hired had to go through a background check.

John Luna

The neighbors next door have a daughter who is 6. The people across the street are retired. It's kind of a variety.

Denise Sanders

It gets into your system. At our age, when you are retired or a senior citizen, you need things that keep you uplifted: That is what I would call good medicine.

Joe Costante

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

Red Adair

It is a concern, and it's not just the NFL that's getting bigger, America is getting bigger, ... We have an opportunity in our sport to protect those men because it's not just affecting you while you play, the true effects happen when you're retired. The guy who isn't out there participating in physical activity, burning calories, he's just going to be bigger, and we've seen it.

Troy Vincent

It wasn't deserved. Because I didn't do the things that they said I'd done. And it was a terrible sort of taste in my mouth ... to have been retired when I wasn't ready.

Dawn Fraser

I retired as a champion pumpkin paddler a few years ago, but I will go back in the race next year if she's in it.

Scott Brison

We understand that the archdiocese has been unable to say whether he has been saying Mass at any churches since his retirement. We don't know if anyone was put in harm's way since he retired, and we have no way of notifying people if we don't know where he's been.

Christy Miller

We started running when we were about 53. We retired at 55 and moved to Florida, and we've been keeping active ever since.

Katherine Goodman

I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel.

Drew Carey

He went from the best horse in the barn to a retired horse. I never thought he'd return. I just had to put it behind me.

Bill Mott

He was at a point in his life where he was retired. And he had expressed this was the happiest point in his life.

Jodi Olson

It is important for everyone to move every day, and what I prescribe is daily aerobic exercise of about an hour. Everyone says they don't have time for that. Even retired people say that. It doesn't change the fact that we need it. The body's got to move. If we don't move, that's when we get in trouble.

Dr. Jana Klauer

[Bill O'Meara grew up in Norwood, and now is a retired executive and investor with residences in Florida and Boston. For him and his wife, finding a place to come back to for part of the year] has been sort of a dream in the back of our minds, ... When I saw this project in the paper, I said, 'Now that's unique... It really captures the imagination.'

Bill Butler

At one point in the match I thought I was going to throw up, I think maybe it was 6-5. If it wasn't a final maybe I would have retired.

Jelena Jankovic

My wife (Maggie Lee) and I are both retired, and a sister came to live with us, so it just made sense for him to come home.

Joe Stout

Coach Powell came to help me in 1998 when he retired from teaching. He has been a great help to me ever since, and this baseball program as well as this community are very blessed to have him here to help guide these young men when they are in high school.

Richy Brooks

The feedback was that it's not the direction in life they're heading right now. They've essentially retired from that level.

Peter O'meara

He got into an altercation with the security guard, who was a retired East St. Louis police officer. The suspect pulled a knife on the guard, which led to the shooting.

Capt. Lenzie Stewart

All the Germans look up to Georg because he is such a good, fast, aerodynamic driver. Of course I will be very sad that he's retired.

Tatjana Huefner

When the shuttle is retired I can immediately take the engine assets out of the shuttle program and fly them on these vehicles.

Byron Wood

I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.

Howie Carr

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Amy Goodman

Now if you launch with conventional propulsion, most of the scientists would be retired or dead.

Charles Johnson

I'm not semi-retired, I'm just taking it easy.

Craig Washington

The biggest thing is having a generation to take over. We could be retired, but we do this because we enjoy it.

Gail Kautz

I came from a family that has worked for a long time. My father-in-law just retired at 81. I'm keeping busy and I like what I do.

Paul Curtis

We have a contract with General Motors since the day we retired. And that contract is enforced until our death.

Leroy Mcknight

From that day on, I haven't seen him as recharged and excited since he retired.

Mike Barnett

My mother only worked, and when she retired, she had a nervous breakdown.

Betty Lucarelli

I'm retired and don't want the stress. I ran because I wanted to help the community, but the people made their choice and we all have to suffer the consequences because of bad decisions that are made.

Barbara B. Pruitt

My husband and I are retired military personnel and we offered help in the form of supplies in a military truck. The military turned down our offer of help.

Jeanette Brown

He always said how much he hated going to the hospitals. He became more (vocal) about how much he hated it after he retired, but he always said he hated it.

Laura Nygren

If he had retired last year he would have done so as the complete hero, the dominant person.

Jackie Stewart

I was still working for the county when we decided to try getting this auction going. Since we were renting the building from the county, I figured it would be best not to also be working for them, so I retired again.

Curtis Barfield

I have never retired-I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

Sally Rand

A lot of these people can't afford homes. I have young families and retired people here who can't afford a home in Redmond.

Chris Mueller

First and foremost, we have to examine whether we keep Stonewall Country retired forever, or bring it back some years, or even bring it back full time.

Mary Sayre

He devoted his whole life to education. He kept on giving, even after he retired.

Richard Lamm

He's retired, and this increase just went past what he set aside every year in his retirement budget. Also with the economy being the way it is, he's not making nice big percentages off his investments anymore.

Robert Samuelson

A lot of people think retired football players only know one thing, and that's football. Well, he's very well-versed in a wide variety of things.

Grant Redhead

I'm a retired psychologist. I thought that I needed to do something I enjoyed. And I've enjoyed flowers, plants and gardening all my adult life.

Steven Brown

Everyone thinks it's just retired people that do this and it's not. We have local chapters geared around families and kids.

Barry Larkin

The vast majority of these programs are available only to active employees. Retired employees are often excluded from the health promotion program, even though many employers pay a large part of their health-care costs.

Louis Yen

One Thanksgiving, we ate at his house, ... We watched old film, and I got to see his retired jersey [No. 63]. Man, that was something.

Willie Lanier

I said to myself, 'What's wrong? What could fix this?' ... You would need someone with ability and time, and the only ones are retired coaches -- the more stature the better.

Andy Curtin

I enjoy her in a different way than I did my own kids. … Since I'm retired, I have more time to be with her and go places.

Paul Wolff

I'm a retired old guy and I don't need a job and I don't need to find a place to work in this state or anything else, but you do.

Jack Billion

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

Ted Knight

He's definitely a retired athlete, (but) he's still fit and riding every day, still thinking about racing. He said it's definitely something he's been thinking about and that the door is still open.

Mark Higgins

My occupational status is retired. My way of life is, I work as hard as I can.

Robert Weiss

Oh, we noticed the prices went up and we don't like it. We've worked too hard all our lives to let it limit us, though. We're retired and we want to travel and we'll continue to do it.

Virginia Kennedy

I retired about five years ago. I was working at the Riviera and decided I had had enough.

Freddie Bell

We always said when we retired we wanted to travel. We started brainstorming two years before we retired.

Bev Rasmussen

The 'Mayor' mask had been retired. We weren't going to make anymore. It sold in New York, but not that much elsewhere.

Brenda Sullivan

It is time for Barbie to retire. I mean, even Michael Jordan retired.

Isaac Larian

The best people have left and the old people have retired, and commercialization has taken hold.

Xu Tian

In my opinion, DLJ acted in a completely irresponsible fashion in selling a retired couple's bonds and putting them in an aggressive stock portfolio.

Curtis Carlson

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

Johnny Ramone

At one point in the match I thought I was going to throw up, I think maybe it was 6-5 (in the first set). If it wasn't a final maybe I would have retired.

Jelena Jankovic

One of the residents is a retired registered nurse that volunteers every other week.

Barbara Davies

By the time this gets here, I could be retired.

Max Mayfield

There are certain points in time where you can look back and say 'That's when Ali should have retired,' ... He clearly should've retired after Manila. When you've taken a beating like he had taken in Manila and you know you're not the fighter you once were, that's the time to get out.

Thomas Hauser

He played the banjo, harmonica -- I think he was into jazz music. Did go camping a good deal. I don't know if he was truly retired or not.

Terry Fisher

My grandfather would work in his shop in the morning and then work the 3 to 11 p.m. shift at Westinghouse. He continued to work at Westinghouse after the war and retired when the plant closed.

Dino Depaulo

Our valley is pretty much composed of retired people - 'old school.' A lot of those traditions were passed down. There's a group of us that would like to preserve those old values.

Steve Sanchez

When I'm gone, they watch out for me, and I've been retired for 23 years, and I'm here everyday.

Raymond Breen

It was obvious to me that CJ with her catering and food and beverage background was perfect for this position, ... And when Janice Lewandowski (Facilities Manager) retired, the spot was there.

Bill Horn

Hotels in the Cooperstown area started getting calls for reservations from the moment they retired.

Dale Petroskey

Pete is a great champion and fans have really missed his talent and character since he retired. His WTT matches will be the hottest ticket in tennis this summer.

Ilana Kloss

Zhang's talents for writing prose became fully developed in his later years, as he devoted all his energy and passion to prose writing after he retired.

Zhang Yiwu

The fact that you have so many [retired] people who have firearms, who are human and are fallible, and get into the things humans get into, it has to be expected on some level.

Eugene O'donnell

The typical person here is retired, probably has an interest in the outdoors and plants, and an interest in the Japanese culture a lot of times. It doesn't take a lot of experience to do bonsai well, but it does take a little bit of an artistic eye.

Erik Wigert

He'll be here for another week and then return home. It's a shame that he's retired, because it looked like he was getting better as he got older.

Eric Coatrieux

I've been retired for about four days now.

Eric Zornes

I have been retired for 4 days now.

Eric Zornes

They were retired people who worked all their lives. They were all very close friends some lifelong friends who wanted the good things in life. They loved to travel together.

Eli Perlman

Everyone tells me that I shouldn't have retired. I guess in a way I haven't ­ I enjoy taking classes and volunteering.

Elaine Hanratty

Most of our local customers are retired people. They stay at home more, read a lot and want natural light. We do a lot of business in places like Sun lakes and Leisure World.

Eddie Estrada