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...fear of downsizing still sends shivers through offices and factories at Fortune 500 companies everywhere, destroying any sense of job entitlement and dampening employee wage demands. "It's almost a paradise for job seekers in the U.S. right now," says John Challenger, executive vice president of Challenger, Gray and Christmas, an international outplacement firm. "But it's a different kind of paradise," he adds, "because companies continue to downsize...
...cadet from West Point leaned forward in his gray uniform and said he wasn't comfortable with the U.N.'s apparent desire to create a supranational army using U.S. troops. Another student said we should stop paying our U.N. dues and starve the international government into submission...
...older, world-weary image--a touch of gray at the temples, a wistfulness for waylaid innocence--that made Mastroianni a worldwide star. As the Dolce Vita gossipist, the moviemaker in Fellini's great 8 1/2 (1963) and the writer in Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte (1961), he moved like a man in perpetual postcoital ennui, elevating spiritual passivity to a metaphysic and a fashion statement. "Mastroianni" became a kind of emotional cologne for the modern male. And no one wore the style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who's been...
Enter Cruella, branch manager of Pure Joy Toy, wearing a gray cashmere business suit accessorized with a tasteful black riding crop. "Good news, children!" she announces in a voice that lets you know she's had her usual breakfast of boiled bunnies and Dalmatian pups. "Thanks to the upsurge of consumer confidence this Christmas season, I'm able to offer you unlimited forced overtime right through Christmas Eve! And to make it easier for you to focus on the task at hand, all exits and rest rooms will be locked for the duration!" As she leaves, we hear locks clanking...
...JOHN GRAY Writer of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus lands one-man Broadway show...