Those who lose jobs in their fifties take significantly longer than others to find their professional footing.

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The Diana mania, which began in the 1980s, was never going to be reproduced for a couple in their fifties.

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The people we studied were in their fifties, professionals at the height of their careers and earning potential.

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Quite the opposite: person after person in their fifties and sixties talked of being in the prime of life, about their enthusiasm for hard work, new job skills, new opportunities.

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While her decisions pleased editors in their early fifties, like Chira and Berke, they did not please editors who were closer to sixty and wondered if their age was held against them.

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Those who lose their jobs in their mid to late fifties, for example, have a much harder time recovering their professional footing than those let go at younger ages, with a good chunk not obtaining another position for more than a year after losing their jobs.

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With tact and care, the movie digs into all the subjects that lay concealed below the surface when Max Ophuls and Douglas Sirk were filming their own melodramas in the nineteen-fifties.

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Ireland face stiff competition in England, India, South Africa and the West Indies in Group B but Wilson, who has one century and four fifties from 25 one-day internationals, says their first two targets in the group are clear.

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