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...other hand, the American Association of Retired Persons finds age discrimination still "pervasive." In a not-yet-published study, it dispatched pairs of "testers," one 57 and one 32, to apply for 102 entry-level sales or management positions. Result: though they presented equal credentials, says AARP, the older applicants received less favorable responses 41.2% of the time. Three-quarters of those responses occurred before the older applicants had even been granted an interview. Sally Dunaway, an AARP lawyer, says bias is hurting "people at younger and younger ages. It used...
Court records are no help. The number of age-bias suits filed with federal and state agencies has stayed roughly level for the past few years. One reason may be that more and more corporations are writing into employment contracts a clause under which the employee agrees never to file an age- (or race- or sex-) discrimination suit. Jeffrey Taren, a Chicago attorney who specializes in employment law, says the number of age-bias cases his firm has agreed to take is actually declining. Not, he hastens to add, because there is less bias to fight. Rather, word...
...city has some unique and potentially lethal features. First, they realized that its major bridges, like the Verrazano Narrows and the George Washington, were so high they would experience the advance winds of an approaching hurricane several hours before winds of the same velocity were felt at ground level. These critical escape routes would have to be closed well before ground-level highways...
...TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "When you're talking about a country with 22,000 nuclear weapons, you want to know they're in safe hands." Indeed, on a day when Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov muttered darkly that "Yeltsin is pushing the nation to a civil war" and Olympic-level athletes threatened to pull out of a Moscow track meet for fear of being injured in a coup, it's not hard...
...street level, the crash hasn't yet happened. The attitude is, "Oh, just another crisis." They haven't yet had the big layoffs -- Wile E. Coyote's legs are still spinning in the air. In the upper echelons, people feel that things are in free fall and no one is in charge. One of the guys at dinner compared the situation to California in the early '90s, when they shut down the defense industry. But I wouldn't push that analogy too far -- California had a happy ending...