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He retired from politics in 1973 due to the fact that Charles Haughey, whose style of politics Aiken strongly disliked, was allowed run as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the 1973 general election.
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The 1958 military pay act departed from this established formula by providing for a 6% increase rather than a proportionate increase for everyone retired prior to its effective date of June 1, 1958.
Mr. Reama, far from really being retired, is engaged in industrial relations counseling.
Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.
One of the local callers, a retired brigadier apparently left over from Kipling's tales of India, does not approve of the way Larkin gets his birds.
Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.
His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.
Poirot had been forcibly retired from the Belgian police force prior to the time he met Hastings in 1916 as a refugee on the case retold in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.
Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne and Justin Langer retired from Test cricket after that series, while Damien Martyn retired during the series.
Andrew Flintoff retired from Test cricket soon afterwards.
Alexios became estranged from Maria, who was stripped of her imperial title and retired to a monastery, and Constantine Doukas was deprived of his status as co-emperor.
He declined offers from German bishops and finally retired to the monastery of Cluny, where he died at a high age, leaving behind a solid reputation for piety and intelligence.
When Absalon retired from military service in 1184 at the age of fifty-seven, he resigned the command of fleets and armies to younger men, like Duke Valdemar, the later king Valdemar II.
Spalding retired from playing baseball in 1878, although he continued as a major force as owner of the White Stockings and major influence on the National League.
The holdings were incorporated in the United States Steel Corporation, a trust organized by Morgan, and Carnegie retired from business.
Carnegie, a self-proclaimed to devotee of Spencer is also noted as saying " My business is to do as much good in the world as I can ; I have retired from all of their business.
He formally retired in 1988 and within a few years moved to the Pyrenees, where he currently lives in isolation from human society.
He retired from scientific life around 1970, after having discovered the partly military funding of IHÉS ( see pp. xii and xiii of SGA1, Springer Lecture Notes 224 ).
Blank retired from the company in 2001 as co-chairman.
In that year he became Kappellmeister of the Imperial Chapel upon the death of Giuseppe Bonno ; as Kappellmeister he conducted the music and musical school connected with the chapel until shortly before his death, being official retired from the post in 1824.
When Salieri retired from the stage, he recognized that artistic styles had changed and he felt that he no longer had the creative capacity to adapt or the emotional desire to continue.
She retired from politics at the 2010 general election.
In 1805, aged 67, he retired from the Navy with the rank of Admiral of the Blue, and spent most of the rest of his life at Bath.
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Under Grimond ( who retired in 1967 ) and his successor, Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberals regained the status of a serious third force in British politics, polling up to 20 % of the vote but unable to break the duopoly of Labour and Conservative and win more than fourteen seats in the Commons.
Finally, wholly restored to his position, he retreated to his studio, took pupils and for the most part, retired from politics.
In 1997 he retired from politics.
In 1997 he also gave over the leadership of the National Party and retired from politics.
The second was from 3 November 1990 to 25 October 1996, when she resigned and retired from Norwegian politics, and was succeeded by Thorbjørn Jagland.
He has since retired from active politics, leaving the House of Commons at the 2001 general election.
Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.
He retired from politics in 1984, and John Turner succeeded him as Prime Minister.
Trudeau retired from politics on June 30, 1984 and was succeeded by John Turner.
Askin retired from politics in January 1975 and was succeeded by Lewis as Premier.
In 1980, President Senghor retired from politics, and handed power over to his handpicked successor, Abdou Diouf, in 1981.
The treasurer, John Brumby, became Labor leader and premier in 2007 when Bracks retired from politics.
For sixteen years Putin was an officer in the KGB, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, before he retired to enter politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1991.
Kenneth Kaunda had earlier retired from politics, but after internal turbulence in the party, due to the " Zero Operation Plan " scandal, he returned, replacing his own successor Kebby Musokotwane.
Following his defection from the Republican party, Ogden retired from politics and moved back to his native New York.
He immediately resigned as CDU leader and largely retired from politics.
In 2002, Kohl left the Bundestag and officially retired from politics.
The success of a party formed by supporters of ex-president Kérékou, who had officially retired from active politics, allowed him to stand successfully at both the 1996 and 2001 presidential elections.
He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended in 2009.
* Lucius Lucullus held a triumph, he retired from war and politics to live a life of refined luxury.
McEwen retired from politics in 1971.
Condit retired from politics and moved with his wife to Phoenix, Arizona, to manage real estate and open two Baskin-Robbins franchises, which have since closed.
His health failed after 1876 and he retired from politics, living as a recluse at his estate, Graystone ( Greystone ), near Yonkers, New York.
Cosgrave retired as leader of the party and from politics in 1944.
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