During his last term of office, the issue of his retirement became a taboo subject among government officials, especially those belonging to his ruling Kanu party.
Growing up I heard of a U.S. Postal worker named Homer Hahus, a WWII veteran and the hardest working member of the Sutter County, California, post office, who passed away within two weeks of retirement having never cashed his first retirement check.
Inevitably the ex-diplomats have already been dismissed as "Foreign Office Arabists", in retirement, and well known for particular views of British Middle East policy.
In New Jersey, elected officials can start collecting their lawmakers' pension once they qualify for it (based on a complex system of accumulating so-called retirement credits), yet stay in office and also garner a salary.
But while diminished wealth may keep more of the elderly in the office, it merely enhances an underlying trend towards later retirement.
Their productivity may decline as they get older although people gain in experience, their capacity for sharp thinking falls off but the traditional pattern of retirement, in which one day an employee is in a bustling office busy as a bee and the next he is good only for the potting shed and the fireside chair does not make sense for the economy, for companies or for people.
Mr Zhou, who has served as governor of the People's Bank of China for the past decade, has reached the mandatory retirement age of 65, but the government is widely expected to keep him in office for at least another year in order to bring policy stability at time when the country is going through a once-in-a-decade leadership transition.
Released in the UK in the new year, the film follows the box office success of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, another ensemble piece about a group of British pensioners in a retirement hotel in India.
"We're involved because of our work on the retirement savings of American workers, " says Bill Patterson, director of the union's office of investment.
Sir Norman said the timing of his retirement would enable the county's police and crime commissioner, who will take up office on 22 November, to immediately begin a search for his successor.
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Then over coffee, they might discuss the future of Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, Benedict's trusted aide who has had the difficult task of escorting his old pope into retirement and then returning to the Vatican to serve his successor in the initial rites of the office.
The decision to step down marked an unexpected change of heart for the Nevada Republican who as recently as last month said he would remain in office until his planned retirement from politics because he had not violated ethics rules.
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