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Beyond Gold: What Happens After You Achieve Your Biggest Goal?

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Gymnast Carly Patterson was just 16 when her dazzling performance at the 2004 Athens Olympics made her the second American woman ever to win the all-around competition. After retiring from gymnastics at 18, Patterson released an album, aptly named Back to the Beginning. “I’ve At 18, following medical advice, she retired.

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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Then Fox’s golden-boy career was seemingly derailed much too soon by a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease—only to be resurrected by award-winning guest roles and, briefly, his own NBC sitcom before he officially retired in 2020. Fox grew up in a loving, supportive family that settled in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby after his father retired.

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Has the U.S. Reached Peak Car?

Small Business Labs

shows that since 2004 Americans have owned fewer cars and light trucks, driven each of those vehicles less and consumed less fuel each year. The study chart below shows mileage driven peaked in 2004/2005 and has declined every year since. .   The most recent study, Has Motorization in the U.S.   trends'

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Other reasons included “not [being] ready to retire” and the loss of their previous job. With a passion for “building the green, clean, knowledge-rich future,” she founded her company, Ethical Markets Media LLC , in 2004, when she was 72. “I Women of all ages are launching businesses. I have a lot of fun,” she said. “We

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Foreign Born in the US Workforce

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  Again, this is little changed from 2008 but up from 49% in 2004.  .  Foreign born workers comprise about 15.5% of the US civilian labor force, or about 23.9 million workers.    This is little changed from 2008, but up from 14.5%   Hispanics make up just over 50.5% of foreign born workers. 

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Give a care? Give a share!

Loosely Speaking

Add it to the list of things to try again when I am retired. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. Raising my own food here in northern Arizona is competing with too many other personal interests AND I’m not that great at it. Loose Ends. All Rights Reserved.

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slugbug tees off

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RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. I love, love, love my 5-year-old loan-free Tundra, but my personal energy efficiency czar (also known as my husband) is leaning on me to purchase a Prius. Loosely Speaking is about how to fuel-inject your entrepreneurial self by living a rollicking, well-rounded life. Loose Ends.

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