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The secretary found that age discrimination was a real problem.

Again he felt that age discrimination played a role in the university's decision.

No one says that age discrimination will not remain an issue.

Has age discrimination on the job become a bigger problem?

But in the area of age discrimination, white men file more cases than any other group.

Second, age discrimination is still a major problem in the workplace.

As a 20-year-old college student, I am sensitive to age discrimination.

The report found that young people also suffer age discrimination.

Q. What else can you do to fight possible age discrimination?

Since then, the number of age discrimination cases rose dramatically.

It is the company's second settlement on age discrimination claims in a year.

But he was equivocal on the issue of age discrimination.

Age discrimination occurs on both a personal and institutional level.

For American corporations, age discrimination can lead to significant expenses.

So he has sued all eight colleagues in federal court for age discrimination.

For this reason, we must combat age discrimination in the workplace.

When the applicant did not get the job, she took that as a sign of age discrimination.

In 1984, she publicly protested that the issue was age discrimination.

They find it hard to get work because age discrimination is most common during recruitment and selection.

The real story here is more profound: the rampant age discrimination in the industry.

At one point in his ruling, he declared that there had been no age discrimination.

Those who were fired eventually won their case against this issue in an age discrimination suit.

"It's a very clear pattern of age discrimination," she said.

We feel his mother may have been the victim of age discrimination in not being able to sign the lease herself.

Age discrimination on the labour market affects women quite a lot earlier than it does men.

Any consideration of ageism has to be clear about the difference.

Ageism has significant effects on the elderly and young people.

The writer said he had also seen ageism in the marketing of his books.

Michael holds a conference room meeting on the subject of ageism.

And I'm the boss here, which certainly protects me from ageism.

It appears that ageism is more pervasive than I thought.

Ageism is a thing of the past in the World State.

Recognizing these policies as ageism, he decided to do something about it.

She made several statements on behalf of youth and against Ageism.

"Ageism is a learned behavior, and we're not being taught better," she added.

There is a serious job to be done in raising the sensitivity of people to their own ageism.

I would even argue that what so often looks like sexism is really ageism.

A recent ageism debate brought out some serious points.

The denial of ageism can go further, with older people often being blamed for their own situation.

Ageism is most often directed towards old people, or adolescents and children.

Ageism has significant effects in two particular sectors: employment and health care.

Ageism may be politically incorrect, but continuity of care is important.

This raises the important question of where our ageism originates.

Unfortunately, as this chapter shows, for the majority the impact of ageism is all too clear.

"I got a real sense of ageism from them."

As a parliament we should also abolish ageism in employment.

While they have much in common, ageism is perhaps different in two major respects.

Now cut the ageism and get to the point."

Ageism can be discrimination by one person or by a part of society as a group.

Some state that society faces a cultural ageism in the perceptions about older adults, which will change over time.

Agism, like other forms of discrimination at work, is rooted in a society's culture.

Thus, agism has finally emerged as a dirty little secret behind the screen in Hollywood.

Agism in the medical profession is mainly covert but it is not uncommon.

It is anthropomorphic, but it uses the "Toys" to reflect on passing years, aging, agism, the disposable society.

Senior Focus is "a fight against agism - and that's a fight that has to be fought," added Ms. Bobruff.

The 'agism' described in the article is just another example of immature whining from someone immersed in a world of excess who obviously cannot find work.

Streep also shrugs off her past indictment of Hollywood's agism, saying that Nicholson, a friend, complains about Hollywood's treatment of older actors.

Norm Breyfogle on possible agism in comics, interview by Cary Ashby (March 30, 2010)

In June 1990 an inaugural meeting of the Alliance Against Ageism in Employment launched a 'ban agism in recruitment' campaign.

The academy is also vulnerable to the charge of agism: "Teen-agers don't get the Nobel Prize," Mr. Wiesel explained.

Workers in assistance homes have suggested that program factors such as understaffing, focus on making money over human welfare, and agism contributing to institutional abuse, aggravated by patients who may be difficult or struggling with mental health issues.

In an open letter to members of parliament in 1991 the Metropolitan Authorities Recruitment Agency (METRA) which has led the debate on agism said: 'Many people of all ages face unfair discrimination at work or when looking for a job, simply because of their date of birth.