Despite public anger over such revelations, Switzerland's business establishment has continued to argue vehemently against the new rules, and Ursula Fraefel, who ran the no-campaign, said that the changes marked "a deterioration of what was once a liberal set of rules on corporate governance".

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More and more, professionals are moving into second-stage careers in order to manage their lives, or better balance priorities, or due to the deterioration of the safety net that once existed between employers and workers.

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Finally, we're no longer seeing the severe deterioration in the job market that we once were.

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Correspondingly, we have watched the deterioration of the sense of stewardship that once was so widespread among the most successful Americans and the near disappearance of the sense of seemliness that led successful capitalists to be obedient to unenforceable standards of propriety.

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