Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...age bias in employment every bit as illegal as race or sex discrimination? Officially, yes, and McElyea briefly considered his legal options. But he knew only too well what forbidding odds he would face in a lawsuit. He had defended the company against many age-discrimination suits and beaten every one. "There is real bias out there," says McElyea, but it is hard to prove...
...people in their 60s or 50s--and sometimes even in their 40s--still have inordinate trouble holding on to the well-paid and responsible positions they have spent long careers working up to or finding jobs commensurate with their abilities and experience. Moreover, recent court decisions have made age bias even harder to prove than at any other time during the 31 years the Age Discrimination in Employment Act has been on the books...
...sure, there are people who deny nearly all the above. "There is no major age discrimination in recruiting," says Ruth Graham, who owns a Washington employment agency. There is much less today than there was 20 years ago, anyway, says Shirley Brussell, 77. She is executive director of Operation ABLE, a Chicago-based employment and training agency that specializes in helping job seekers age 50 and above and proves by its mere existence that older workers get more assistance now than they once...
...Mahathir?s plan is easy to dismiss as the folly of an economically inept autocrat. But by going through with it, Mahathir has drawn a line in the sand: It?s him against the barbarians. And in this age where economic and political ideology have become inextricably entwined, the stakes are high. Mahathir evidently dreams of an Asia resurgent on its own terms, reborn in its own image, not that of the West. If his course succeeds, and Malaysia recovers, the rest of the region could follow his example and pull disastrously back from necessary economic reforms. At worst...
Those few years being an assistant football coach in the Big 10 at the very young age of 24 or 25 were a tremendous advantage to me in understanding how to win." --Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner...