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By Marcia Heroux Pounds, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 23--Sports broadcasters have been making a big deal out of the fact that Jack McKeon is 72. Can you imagine that? He's over 70 and still able to manage a baseball club to the playoffs!

Seventy-two is long past the age when businesses have gently, or even forcefully, shoved older workers toward the door. Some companies still have mandatory retirement at 65 or 70. But like Marlins' owner Jeffrey Loria, who hired McKeon, savvy businesses are turning to older, exper

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