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...jobless. I suggest he take a typing and shorthand course and seek a job as a secretary. Female college graduates have been told for decades that the way to break into business is through secretarial work. And I can personally assure the young man in your story that the sting of humiliation deadens after the first five years with no promotion...
Executive Layoffs. Seasoned executives and high-paid technicians are feeling the sting of unemployment. The Labor Department reports that the number of jobless "professional and managerial" workers has climbed in the past year from 279,000 to 409,000. In many cities, voluntary job-placement centers have opened up to teach these men the skills they have forgotten: how to write a resume, how to look for a job, what to do while waiting...
...good after that song. He just ran out another side door, and that was it. He hadn't been on very long, but the kids didn't really know what to do except cry a little. Any sort of negative reaction would be nothing less than a personal sting for Bobby...
...tinted, bone-perfect reproduction of Rogers, nor does he even speak with Rogers' casual, careless Oklahoma drawl. What he tries for, and succeeds in evoking, is a psychic affinity with the wit of the Western corral, a man whose comic spirit always had a visible edge but no sting of malice, a man who could toss off a one-liner like, "I could have gone to West Point, but I was too proud to talk to a Congressman...
...task that top managements increasingly face as the business downturn and profit squeeze make superfluous executives an insupportable luxury. In July, unemployment among professional and managerial employees rose to 394,000-up 74% from a year earlier. Now, though, a method has been developed to take some of the sting and embarrassment out of executive firing. Instead of simply bouncing a subordinate, the boss can send him to a firm that specializes in helping unwanted executives to find new jobs. The practitioners have even coined a euphemistic description for the process: "outplacing" executives who have been "dehired...