Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the Federal Government that in 1967 formally made age discrimination illegal. But in a landmark 1993 decision involving a pension-vesting case, the U.S. Supreme Court made it much more difficult to prove age was the cause of a layoff. After the ruling it became easier for an employer to cut payroll by replacing higher-salaried workers with lower-paid ones--even if those let go are all much older than the employees who take their place...
...lower courts too "there has been a vast increase in the number of summary judgments against plaintiffs" alleging age discrimination, says Eric Nelson, a New York attorney specializing in employment law. Chicago lawyer Taren adds that some courts have even interpreted employer comments such as, "This company is looking for young blood," or, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," to be innocent remarks rather than evidence of serious bias. The upshot is that if an age-discrimination case is to succeed, an employer virtually has to tell a worker in so many words, "We don't want...
...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, landed a job--assembling promotional materials for a printing company--through a temporary-help agency...
...Eton uniform: swallowtail jacket, striped trousers and starched shirt. Although his mother once mentioned that she wanted him to go to Harvard (his father went to Cambridge), he declined to say what university he wants to attend. When he got hit on the head by a golf club at age eight, he didn't cry. And though he has been rumored to have had a couple of girlfriends already, he confessed that he wishes those teenage fans would leave him alone...
...nanosecond of contrition," at least in public, for their former spin on Clinton's behalf. But then consistency is a hobgoblin of the pre-spin mentality. Although the truth about Monica, or something close to it, was forced out of President Clinton, we are still in the golden age of spin. Spin as a metaphor derived from "putting a spin on the ball," and meant putting your own twist on the truth. But a better image today is the spinning wheel, thence the expression "spinning a tale." Truth is incidental...