Not everyone can afford to take a year off, but you can do it on the cheap.
The Dundonian took a year off to have her first child before returning to win in Tokyo.
Ms. Podlodowski took a year off to travel, served on Seattle's City Council and became involved in charities.
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An accelerated strategy for MDS and multiple myeloma might shave a year off the approval process, Barer says.
His widow is taking a year off from her job as a documentary producer for the BBC in London.
But the band may be taking a break next summer and the festival is having a year off in 2012, Mr Eavis added.
When the singer took a year off in 2010 (to rest and make a documentary film about football), he kept his staff on salary.
It's probably hard to plan a year off if your wits have been dulled by the Uniform Commercial Code and the Rule Against Perpetuities.
In 1992 he took a year off from prestigious Moscow State University to study at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he perfected his English.
To make it possible for women to combine work and family, the state provided comprehensive child care, and a year off for each baby.
Tom Henschel, a coach who specializes in business communication, says every time a woman touches her hair, she takes a year off of her maturity.
Another option could be for him to take a year off and wait for a vacancy at Ferrari in 2011, when Felipe Massa's contract runs out.
If all works as planned, the software could shave a year off the time it takes Boeing to bring the plane to market, scheduled for 2008.
Also, most colleges understand that students might need to take a year off, either before school or in the middle of their education, to save money.
It should shave, at minimum, tens of thousands of dollars a year off its electric bill, says Susanne Zechiel, manager of facility resources for Brown-Forman's California wineries.
So in 2010, after selling Giant Realm, Mr. Green did just that taking a year off to sail across the Atlantic Ocean with his wife and two young children.
The percentage of students taking a year off after high school has been about the same for several years, says Linda DeAngelo, assistant research director for the institute.
It could mean that more gamers are burning out or taking a year off, and we may see an even bigger launch month for whatever comes next year.
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They are so gifted they could take a year off, fall out of bed and whip off 50 miles at a pace that would leave most club riders gasping.
Before entering Brown University in the fall, he will take a year off (with Brown's approval) to work with his 22-year-old brother, Alexander, in a Web-development company they co-founded.
Before Murphy's triumph, Ronnie O'Sullivan's defeat by Peter Ebdon and his announcement that he was considering taking a year off from the game were what had set people's tongues wagging.
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When Roberta Chinsky Matuson quit her job and took more than a year off to travel, she expected a barrage of questions about her absence when she began job hunting.
John had been planning to take a year off following the takeover, but in two months he was at a meeting at the ARCH offices with Randy Scott and Phil Beachy.
She wants parental leave when a baby is born to be reformed along mainly Nordic lines: ring-fencing half a year off for mothers and another half-year for fathers, on a use-it-or-lose-it basis.
Both subsidised day care and the parental-leave programme, which allows parents to take almost a year off at up to three-quarters of their salary, have been popular beyond the government's wildest projections.
The survey doesn't ask students' reasons for taking a year off, which might include service work, travel, trying out potential careers, working for pay, health problems or uncertainty about what to do next.
He opened up his now-familiar grab bag of microproposals, including a proposal to forgive student loan interest for those who take a year off from college to work under the auspices of religious groups.
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