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Nearly all employers these days are too knowledgeable to say anything of the sort. A former senior vice president of one of Madison Avenue's biggest ad agencies tells this story: In February 1996 he got an unexpected summons to the office of a new and younger boss. On his way in he nodded to a woman he did not know; he thought he was about to be given a new account with which she was somehow connected. But in a five-minute interview, the boss told the executive, who was then 47, that he was being fired for "lack...
Arthur Morse, a onetime Chicago ad executive, encountered a common and much subtler approach. Four years ago, when he was 63, Morse relates, his agency brought in a "30-ish" woman to "relieve" him of some of his workload. "I could see the handwriting on the wall," says Morse. Two years later his job was eliminated, but he was given another assignment. That too vanished in a year, and "my career was over," says Morse. "Nobody wants to talk to you because of your age or your salary" ($65,000 in his case). In July, Morse, still unwilling to retire...
...like a similar favor from the Commander in Chief. "I ran my own campaign last time, and we plan to do the same thing this time," he says. His reluctance is understandable, given the fact that Etheridge recently became the first Democrat to be the target of a television ad tarring him with Bill Clinton's sexual infidelities. "Scandal after scandal, day after day," intones the ad. "And who stands with Bill Clinton, even now? Liberal Bob Etheridge...
...Back on the Street -- because, as the ad says, people work on Wednesday -- traders will be watching the numbers for July durable goods orders. The consensus estimate is down one-tenth of one percent, just like last month...
...Personal ads can make for interesting reading. Brief, often disjointed attempts at self-description, the ads aim to present an entire person by mentioning several characteristics and interests. Now, imagine the typical personal ad. Expand it to 10, maybe 20 pages. Replace the desire to impress with a commitment to candor. Picture the ad being written by someone who aspires to be a professional writer. In such a transformation every characteristic, every interest that would be presented in the shorter ad, will be explained, analyzed, connected to other traits, to past experiences, to future aspirations. Put together twenty of these...