Word: fodders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirit to the handheld market. The Newton was the world's first "personal digital assistant" and was supposed to rejuvenate the flagging company. But if the Mac quacked, the Newton gobbled like a turkey. Critics decried its buggy handwriting-recognition system and boutique price. It was dismissed as Doonesbury fodder soon after its 1992 release...
...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...