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Most Ivy alums will reinforce this system. The Harvard Law Placement Information booklet reports that a year after graduating, 13 of the 510 members of the Class of 1982 went to the federal government, five to legal services, five to public interest law. Three hundred and forty nine signed on with law firms...
...company in September filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. California toymaker Mattel was zapped by the collapse of the video-game craze, and its stock fell sharply. Pennsylvania-based Nutri/System, which operates a chain of weight-loss centers, fell from grace when earnings slumped after it acquired an executive job placement service and a cosmetics firm. Anacomp, an Indianapolis data processor, had problems with some software products, and its stock tumbled. The drop in the share price of California...
...followed his every gesture. There was no applause from the congregation, rather bowing of heads and smiles, the result not of chilliness but of Lutheran formality. Instead of his magisterial miter, the Pope wore a simple white skullcap. Equality was stressed even in such details as the size and placement of each chair...
...fifty-odd workers faced the crisis of employment termination (lay-offs) as the University contracted an outside firm to replace these workers. A complex agreement was reached between the University and the unions representing the workers, an agreement which reserved the lion's share of termination pay and job placement assistance to (you guessed it) workers with twenty years or more on the job. It is a textbook case of a big white institution and white-dominated unions agreeing to give preference to seniority privileges over hard-won affirmative action protections...
...distinct contrast to this edgy placement of Englishmen on Irish soil (a juxtaposition which comes up repeatedly in Trevor, and specifically in his latest novel, Fools of Fortune); a trilogy of stories entitled Matilda's England is a sublime, melancholic pattern of a woman's reminiscences of a life, of the eras of a country house, of tennis parties and unfulfilled relationships. Here is the retreat into the past, the solace of remembering old pleasures, the ghostly hovering of the past over present dissatisfaction that colors so much of Trevor's work...