41.   Kemper National said Alfred K. Kenyon, its president, who had planned to take early retirement, would remain until Mathis arrived.

42.   Larger companies also are asking older workers to take early retirement.

43.   Larger companies are also asking older workers to take early retirement.

44.   Not long before, Broome had watched several of her peers take early retirement as her company merged with a competitor.

45.   Nippon Steel asked many of its middle-aged workers to take early retirement and farmed others out to subsidiaries or affiliates.

46.   Oliver probably would have topped that offer to persuade Giambi to take early retirement.

47.   Other members of the military-police unit were either transferred or took early retirement.

48.   Others will take early retirement, the company said.

49.   Others decided to take early retirement or found new jobs before their severance dates.

50.   Q. We plan to take early retirement at the beginning of next year.