1.   You hear more about people taking early retirement or giving up high pressure jobs in favour of occupations with shorter working hours.

2.   Then he had started on again about getting married and giving up her job.

3.   Americans may have an especially hard time giving up their youth culture.

4.   An Agnes Martin or Frank Stella painting is not just giving up images but about giving up warmth.

5.   And eight scoreless innings is better than giving up one in the ninth.

6.   Angels starter Scott Schoeneweis managed to get through seven innings but not before giving up five runs.

7.   Belichick stresses not giving up big plays in the secondary because he stresses containment and aggressive play by the players up front.

8.   Birth parents would have eight days to change their minds about giving up their children.

9.   A season without baseball after nearly a half-century of unstinting devotion to the game was just as agonizing as giving up smoking was nine years ago.

10.   A sale of a stake in Robertson Stephens to the public would allow Fleet to capitalize on the high values investment banks are commanding without giving up control.