May 16 2009 Few ensembles loom larger on the landscape of American chamber music than this renowned foursome, which is retiring this year.
Still, Southwest's cuts are modest compared with those at other airlines like United, which is retiring 100 planes through the end of 2009.
"The challenge also has to shift to doing something that a majority of people think that us athletes can't do, which is retire and be great at something else".
A picture caption in Business Day yesterday with an article about a reduction in seats available on domestic airline flights misidentified a jet flown by Northwest Airlines, which is retiring 24 of its DC-9 aircraft.
"It is the case that a lot of people felt that Coats was going to do this for a while and then go do what he was about to do when he took on the job, which is retire and spend time with his grandkids," the former official who spoke to people at Coats's office said.
Otto Schenk's Romantic "Ring" production, which was retired in 2009, had passionate defenders.
He even recently acquired the Metallgesellschaft name, which was retired after a series of corporate overhauls.
The Hamilton's present captain, Edward Grady, used to be on the Peter Stuyvesant, which was retired in 1962.
The Yankees' Mariano Rivera is the last active player to wear Jackie Robinson's number, 42, which was retired by Major League Baseball in 1997.
The event was similar to a rendezvous of three Cunard ships in 2008, but this time the new Queen Elizabeth, which was launched last year, replaced the Queen Elizabeth 2, which was retired to become a hotel in Dubai.
