71.   To cut costs, companies are refraining from hiring new employees and asking middle-aged businessmen to take early retirement.

72.   Two months before, he had taken early retirement from the military for medical reasons.

73.   Two of the mainstays from that old Acushnet gang, John Jepson and Chuck Giebel, took retirement.

74.   Vanderpool demoted Jordan last June, and Jordan took medical retirement for back problems in July.

75.   While firing is taboo in Japan, managers are reducing payrolls by hiring fewer young people and urging or pressuring middle-aged men to take early retirement.

76.   Will this savings plan be sufficient to allow us to take early retirement and save sufficient money as a hedge against inflation?

77.   While it might be hard to work up sympathy for a company chairman who took early retirement, Thompson did have two children still in college.

78.   Workers will be offered a package of incentives to voluntarily leave the company or take early retirement.

79.   Others plan to take voluntary retirement.

80.   After months of treatment at a hospital, Kunimatsu resumed his post but he took early retirement this year.