51.   Q. I recently took early retirement from a bank job, as a result of a merger.

52.   Q. I took early retirement at the end of December.

53.   Several years ago, defeated, he took early retirement because he found it too difficult to drag himself to work on so little sleep.

54.   She took early retirement from the Army last August.

55.   Siemens may have backdated pension documents to increase government money paid to German workers taking earlier retirement, Pierer said.

56.   Sherry Cadorette was dogged by acute vulnerability when she realized that all five of her mentors at BellSouth Corp. in Atlanta had taken early retirement during several layoffs.

57.   Smith forced him to take early retirement.

58.   Since then, Baker-Finch has taken a retirement of sorts from golf.

59.   Southgate decided effectively to take early retirement, reinstating Fifield as his heir.

60.   So she quietly took early retirement from the Army.