Luckily for us she has, so far, decided against that path, preferring a world-class operatic, oratorio and lieder career which continues, after some four decades, busy as ever.
In 2003, Iyall agreed with this claim: "Howie sold us from 415 to Columbia Records, and they were like 'Who's this fat chick?' They decided that was as far as it was going to get, and pulled their support".
Vodafone's board regularly reviews whether to keep them in the company's portfolio, and has so far decided to do so though that could change in future.
I went outside to see how everything was going … and, having got that far, decided to make one more survey of the highway.
We haven't even started our strategic review, far less decided that demutualisation is the obvious outcome".
When I say "they", I am of course referring to the Conservatives, because even the Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, having gone along with the austerity programme so far, has decided that enough is enough.
The movie studios so far have decided that he should not watch movies online when he wants to watch them.
As Dr Christopher Green, author of parent handbook Toddler Taming writes: "We can choose the healthiest designer diet, put it on a plate, even get it into the toddler's mouth, but if they decide that's as far as it is going - checkmate - game over".
Either (so far) they have decided that they are too old, and it's time to give the next generation a chance; or they are still too embroiled with children and therefore not ready.
So far, it has decided that some cases of image manipulation were innocent mistakes, but is still investigating the rest of the worries and RIKEN's boss, Ryoji Noyori, has described Dr Obokata's work as "sloppy and irresponsible" while Masatoshi Takeichi, the director of the developmental-biology centre, has suggested the papers be retracted.
