In other words, who retires when and how retirements affect the balance of the court is too much of a lottery for many voters to cast their ballots on this basis alone.Attempts to steer the court too fast or too sharply in one direction or another seldom succeed for long.
The Brazilian made his worst start to a season with two retirements in the opening two races.
The retirements of Paolo Maldini, Luis Figo and Pavel Nedved had all been announced well in advance, while Carlo Ancelotti's departure from Milan came as no surprise, but that didn't make their goodbyes any less emotional.
If things go badly for Texas Democrats, expect to see some early retirements.
Worse, retirements and inadequate recruitment will exacerbate the problem.
AS RETIREMENTS and primary contests have chipped centrists away from Congress one by one, usually to be replaced with an ideologically purer lawmaker, voting in the House and the Senate has become drearily predictable.
Higher population growth and shorter retirements require less saving; older populations more.For America, the required stock of savings equalled -228% of GDP in 1970: households should have been borrowers rather than savers since their relative youth and lower life expectancy meant they had ample future income to repay their debts and finance retirement.
Retirements will reverse the earlier labour-force surge, and younger generations cannot benefit from more women working.
Western consumers, facing higher taxes and lower benefits, will no longer have the freedom to spend; indeed, they will want to save more as they face long retirements.
To make matters worse, a wave of retirements looms: the 500 members of the Institute of Psychoanalysis have an average age of 65.Of the many upstart groups muscling in on the therapy trade, two are faring particularly well.
Thanks to redistricting and retirements, three House seats, a Senate seat and the governorship are all up for grabs.The voters of Tennessee are a conservative lot.
