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or sat iddle managers now ught in career bind THE BATTALION Page 11 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1976 iblems and nott«] wick said, requires tl to the State Hea i the caseo peat fJ he u,uvj m By JOHN CUNNIFF syphilis is presejM th Departme»|l Assoc,ated Press all sexual cont*tP iEW YORK — T housands of cor- reated. In tlieaH ate m iddle managers are becom- >nly the number#? caught in a career bind that orted. ■entens to end their upward mobil- Tind terminate their dreams of'the Afortable, affluent life. 1 _ I ■■lost of the victims are in the mid- Llj nil years between ages 40 and 50. Hiving advanced steadily in their 1 • Bs, they have long assumed that aKinJ latually a management posi- 0 tii)i], with more money and a com fortable retirement, was theirs, c, paint, wires((■ - l lose aspirations now are being r the toys theymjBg.gpjieJ With the ranks of mid- Rootin Ridgt fcdll management swollen by past hir ing excesses and the slowdown of re gettingbaclili^Xjness expansion, many of them red of produii fj m ; they have to win their jobs over Paul, whose d aiK ] 0V er again. g with his hant LTrliere’s no way for them to re- -opped out ofelj ■” sa id Eugene Jennings, profes- studies at the li S0I author, student of routes to ton. executive success and confidential respond to thei a 4 j S cr to the heads of large corpora- vheeled arniac tions. “They’re squeezed from the unpainted can,LI and the bottom.” planes, he sail B he pressure from the top is by io confusion old upper management that seeks to cut res aJott6theiM c Jt s an d raise productivity. From lild, he said jthj. bottom they arc being pushed by lot of eashirifrijylmger managers seeking to pull of the toys sell fo themselves up the ladder, r-car wooden trail B"p] lc ,y find themselves too young toletire and, in their own minds, too footer with a Dea^jj] to start over again. And they find d Georgean, ad mde, maketheli irkbench in the ‘lectrie sander, i ;saw that Paul bj eight. ey make are mo!:l birth toageylGGLLEGE STATION — Texas >w toy goesisofel ^ ^ University officials are hopeful ol more meetings with local apart- ieorgean use ; In ‘ at owners and managers follow- pine, 1% incheijtog the first conference between the e toys theydBp earlier in the semester, breaks, it di(B^ aren D- Switzer, Texas A&M omes off in d s 4 I dent development coordinator, lained. l»d Friday that local businessmen natural appei!B ve expressed a desire for a second themselves too high up the ladder to incur risk, and too low to dictate to the corporation,” said Jennings. The professor, who maintains “lis tening posts” in many of the largest corporations, reports that ‘‘few major companies aren’t over- Anolysis supplied with these middle mana gers.” Some companies are offering early retirement to encourage them to leave. “However, some of them don’t accept the opportunity and have to be pushed.” Others are ph ased into positions known to be deadends. Jennings, who is trained in psychology as well as in business administration, notes that the com mon complaint of such men is that they are misunderstood by the com pany and unappreciated by family and friends. Having been upwardly mobile since their earliest days in business, many of them cannot explain to their families why they are not continuing to advance into positions and money-ranges they had all but taken for granted. The problem is vexing to both employe and corporation, says Jen nings, who teaches at Michigan State University. Neither is happy with the situation. 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Is shout eogmpl )hio (AP) -ij hool junirs wk' i school shouldi ography instead oiecing togethei bat the three p£ ned spaghettis i for the dayii ing they weref r police attacbj ly werech; arijuana. e three chose 1 ? use for trainiM present stated, however, that they could not currently agree on a Uni form policy in accord with the Uni versity’s timetable. Remarks were made specifically in response to a proposal by Texas A&M student Ronnie Pechacek, a volunteer with the Student Affairs Office, that fall leases be made avail able April 1 or any other date agreed upon by the lessors. One of the reasons for advocating earlier fall lease agreements, Pechacek said, would be to offer them to new and transfer students attending orientation meetings in May, June, July and August. Presentations to the businessmen were made by Glenn Jennings, assis tant director of student affairs, Switzer and Pechacek. 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