There's also the inexorable decline over time, my rate dropping in response to accumulated responsibilities, children to care for, piled-up magazines competing for my attention.
It's easy at a big company like Yahoo! to accumulate responsibility.
Like Foreign Service officers, financial regulation service officers should receive long-term training in professional tracks like consumer protection, systemic risk and examinations and investigations, and they should accumulate progressive responsibility within specialized fields.
At core, they are technologists, but fluent in language and lore of C-suite business because they will have accumulated P&L responsibility along the way.
"More and more what we're doing is putting the responsibility for accumulating sufficient assets for retirement on the backs of workers, but not educating workers as to what their responsibility is," Mr. Schieber said.
This is because it ignores historical responsibility for accumulating greenhouse gases emitted over the past 200 years, and because it gives a greater share of the remaining emissions that can be burned without causing catastrophic warming to rich countries.
The responsibility for accumulating retirement wealth increasingly falls on employees' shoulders.
His promotion to such a big position at the age of 29 is another sign that financial professionals are accumulating more and more responsibility at a younger age.
Although at first Goethe had few duties beyond accompanying Charles Augustus and arranging court entertainments, he soon began to accumulate more prosaic responsibilities and was, initially at least, motivated by the idea of a reformed principality governed, in accordance with Enlightenment principles, for the benefit of all its subjects and not just of the landowning nobility.
One of the hardest is that you can only party for so long before your body starts asking you nicely to please chill out, or you accumulate so many responsibilities that drinking five beers and popping a molly just isn't wise anymore.
Looking for Flaco, Brandon seeks advice from his tough, 'hood-respected uncle (a rock-solid Mahershala Ali), who sternly tells him to handle his business himself, all while exercising the arm of his incapacitated, vacantly smiling grandmother — the scene cleverly suggests that one's "business" changes as life's responsibilities accumulate.
