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Losing a parent is hellish in any instance. Hilary had the added horror of seeing hers vanish, suddenly and surreally, on TV. That morning her father George called home twice from his office at the insurance broker Aon on the 99th floor of the south tower--once calmly, the second time choking on tears--to assure her mother Ginny that he was O.K. and was being evacuated. Several hours later, Hilary, watching TV along with the rest of her sixth-grade class, saw one of the endless replays of her father's office building collapsing in a heap...
...public stage, and everyone wanted a hand in her recovery. Strangers sent their sympathy wrapped in handmade quilts, Lego sets and VIP passes to U.S. Space Camp and Bruce Springsteen concerts. One day a shaky Mary Tyler Moore went on cnn to read a poem by an Aon employee detailing how Hilary's dad had talked to co-workers about his daughter. In her hometown on the Jersey Shore, Hilary was instantly cast as "the 9/11 kid." Students in her school either acted cloyingly sweet or parted ways when they saw her coming. This spring her teacher even pulled...
...Called To Account Shares in insurance broker Aon fell by almost 30% after it said it was the latest company to be questioned by the sec over accounting practices...
Demas was a managing director of Aon Corporation, an insurance brokerage, for four years, and before that had been a managing director at Marsh & McLennan, where he worked for 31 years...
Before Sept. 11 the U.S. work force was extraordinarily footloose. In February an Aon survey of 1,800 workers nationwide found that just 65% intended to stay with their organizations for "the next several" years--a five-year low--and only 45% would remain if offered a similar job with slightly higher pay. But a follow-up poll conducted in October showed that 54% would say no to an offer of a similar job with better pay. Especially since Sept. 11, "there are so many distractions in the world," says Chris Yetman, human resources director at Advanced Elastimer Systems...