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emeritus

adjective as in retired

adjective as in retired

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The work came from the estate of cosmetics executive Leonard Lauder, elder scion of Estée Lauder and chairman emeritus of her beauty empire who died in June.

Destroying the documents would be a taller task, and “would need a loyal secretary or equivalent,” said Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a professor emeritus and FBI historian at the University of Edinburgh.

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"Pesticides and herbicides are designed to alter biological systems," said Eugene Lengerich, emeritus professor of public health sciences at Penn State and senior author on the paper.

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“They just use it as a mechanism for getting rid of difficult-to-prosecute cases, cases that weren’t a lead-pipe cinch to get a conviction,” said Gary Kleck, professor emeritus of criminology at Florida State University.

For a time, Rupert Murdoch, chairman emeritus of Wall Street Journal parent company News Corp, owner of this newspaper, was an obsession.

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