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...starts shaking, and my back tenses up." He feels sorry for the older strikers who were near retirement and the younger ones who were "used to an interesting job and are going to end up pumping gas." Not all will. A recruiter from Saudi Arabia was offering $85,000-a-year jobs, with two-month paid vacations in Europe, to U.S. controllers. Some 200 picked up applications...
...said, was "getting things done." His genius was in seeing and serving the needs of future generations without flinching at the uprooting or expense he inflicted on the present one. When he died last week of congestive heart failure at 92, still in office as a $35,000-a-year consultant to the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, his legacy included: a metropolitan highway system in New York City bigger than the one in Los Angeles; the Lincoln Center cultural complex; the United Nations headquarters; and his last project, the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Moses left...
...week at Long Beach, Calif. More than 10,000 people have put down as much as $2,000 for options to buy the car, and De Lorean is confident that the high sticker price will not scare away customers. Says he: "Our buyer is someone in the $70,000-a-year income bracket or over, and he is pretty much unaffected by minor economic travails...
...candidate for an $80,000-a-year financial job in Chicago sheepishly admitted that he has been listing nonexistent bachelor's and graduate degrees on his resume for 20 years. A man seeking a position with a Texas-based airline was caught inflating his previous position and salary with another airline and neglecting to mention that his current employer had given him two weeks to find...
Raymond Matzker, the $42,000-a-year director of a Wisconsin mental health institute, was not so fortunate. He lost his job last January after it was discovered that he had taken the name, Social Security number and educational background of a college acquaintance. One job candidate got in trouble because of the bad judgment used by an executive placement firm he hired. A cover letter that accompanied the resume of Dennis C. Revell claimed that he "is a litigator who makes an excellent presentation and is engaged to be married to President Reagan's daughter Maureen." Although...