Word: career
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Most firms won't be that accommodating. "We're talking about the people who are most vulnerable and career trapped," says Michele Varnhagen of the Pension Rights Center. People like Stephen Langlie, a retired engineer at Onan Corp., a Minnesota subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co., who claims his current, $420 monthly check under the cash-balance plan, to which the company switched in 1989, pales in comparison with the $1,500 projected under the old plan. Many colleagues have joined him in a class action against Onan...
Aside from the suburban teenager as represented by James Van Der Beek, is there a subject of greater cultural fascination at the moment than the young, single career woman yearning to a Joni Mitchell ballad in her mind? She has certainly claimed her place on television, and soon Barnes and Noble will need to create extra room for her, perhaps with a books-about-thirtyish-media- women-who-fret-and-drink-Scotch-in-New-York-or-California section. In the year since Helen Fielding's best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary, a novel focused on a cocktails-and-cellulite-obsessed...
RETIRING. JULIE KRONE, 35, the world's most successful female jockey; from a record-shattering 18-year career; in late spring. In 1993, riding Colonial Affair at the Belmont Stakes, the tiny but ferocious Krone became the first woman ever to win a Triple Crown race...
...many young people, the new frontier has been liberating. As a university student, photojournalist Kim Woo Kyoung fantasized about becoming a taxi driver just to have a chance to drive around and meet ordinary people, but he felt social pressure to stick to a narrow range of "respectable" career choices. Recently Kim left a large television network to set up his own media company. Says Kim: "IMF has broken down the university-credential wall...
...where a dozen or so wasted regulars are waiting for the annual appearance of Hickey, a gregarious salesman who never fails to perk them up. But Hickey arrives with a teetotaler's resolve and a revivalist's mission--to get them to cast off their phony dreams. In this career-making role (it helped make Jason Robards Jr. a star), Kevin Spacey gives the performance of his life. Prowling the stage in a half-crouch, his voice oozing with snake-oil self-confidence, using silences as cagily as the torrent of words, he is funny, charismatic and ultimately shattering...