Start-ups are risky, but a wise job-seeker would do some homework to discover if a prospective employer is backed by patient investors with deep pockets and industry know-how.

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Although the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits job discrimination based on disability, it's nevertheless wise to be upfront about a potential employer's possible concerns.

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That tolerance changed when the bottom fell out of the aerospace industry, and the company gave the job of firing Mack to a 25-year-old wise-cracking law student named Michael Konz and a well-liked 52-year-old manager named Jim English.

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If so, this traditionalist pope will prove to have been wise in breaking the papal tradition of staying on the job until death.

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But as a wise Benjamin Franklin said after signing his name to the U.S. Constitution, our job is to keep it.

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