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...perverse incentive" to fire workers who might bring discrimination claims. Straightforward as the ruling sounds, however, its implications could be wide-ranging. The ruling, for example, does not specify the boundaries for filing retaliation suits in connection with bad job references. That oversight could mean plenty of fresh fodder down the road for a whole new class of race-bias suits...
...perverse incentive" to fire workers who might bring discrimination claims. Straightforward as the ruling sounds, however, its implications could be wide-ranging. The ruling, for example, does not specify the boundaries for filing retaliation suits in connection with bad job references. That oversight could mean plenty of fresh fodder down the road for a whole new class of race-bias suits...
Besides, if his Koln Concert is any evidence, Jarrett finds meaning and authenticity only in a surfeit of emotion and moodiness. The album, a recording of one of his improvisational concerts, is a real soul-twister, one part tear-jerker, one part elevator fodder, and one part art. Jarrett oozes presence on the album, as he grunts along with the music over and over and over again...
...President brushed aside by history and used as the prop of a thousand Washington toastmasters searching for a cheap laugh over the past 120 years. Humorist Bob Orben says the name is melodic ("Chester Arthur doesn't make it"), and Hayes' dim place in the national chronicle makes him fodder for almost any joke. Washington visitor at the Hayes Inauguration in 1877: "Who was that man in front of you on the stand with his hand raised?" Senator: "I didn't catch his name...
...crowd was looking for generic power chord fodder in Goldfinger's performance, then its anticipation was satisfied. The band's ska roots were watered down to the point that the ska-based guitar rhythm would pop up every so often, as if it remained a vestigial part of the band by failing to make a musical statement. Consequently, the noisy uniformity of the music washed away the lyrics into inaudible oblivion. Unbelievably, however, the audience continued to eat up the performance as they threw themselves at each other and jumped along to the drum rhythms...