Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McElyea briefly considered his legal options. But he knew only too well what forbidding odds he would face in a lawsuit. He had defended the company against many age-discrimination suits and beaten every one. "There is real bias out there," says McElyea, but it is hard to prove...
...sometimes even in their 40s--still have inordinate trouble holding on to the well-paid and responsible positions they have spent long careers working up to or finding jobs commensurate with their abilities and experience. Moreover, recent court decisions have made age bias even harder to prove than at any other time during the 31 years the Age Discrimination in Employment Act has been on the books...
...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...
Brave talk. The Administration has yet to prove it can deliver. Most of bin Laden's hidden finances have been impossible to find. Pentagon officials admit they're not flush with big fat targets in bin Laden's network, which is a collection of highly mobile terror cells with no central headquarters. Sending in commandos to snatch him in Afghanistan would be too bloody an operation, and the country's ruling Taliban is so far in no mood to turn him over...
...less than bright. But each is about to embark on what would appear to be a fool's errand: starting a new television network in an era in which audiences are fragmenting and network profits disappearing. Paxson and Diller are joining upstarts UPN and the WB in trying to prove that the problem with TV is not the network but the financial model on which it is based...