Within two weeks, he said, the department will graduate 36 people, but it will lose 117 to retirement.

In the coming year, as 10 to 12 parishes lose priests to retirement, these new models will spread.

The agency hired about 25 new covert-operations officers in 1995, and lost six times as many to retirement.

The Fire Department usually loses no more than 500 firefighters a year to retirement.

The school lost almost 100 faculty members to retirement in the past few years.

Human Resources, for example, took a heavy hit last year, as the agency lost 1,591 staff members to early retirement.

That is so because the city loses more than 2,000 officers each year to retirement, so it must run fast simply to stay in place.

They have, after all, just lost Larry Bird to retirement.

The team lost a number of players to early retirement, mainly because remuneration was so poor.

The staff loses an average of 65 or so officers a month to retirement, resignations and other factors.