Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem for each woman is that for now, her strength in Washington State is her weakness in Washington, D.C. Murray is playing softball in a game where they always throw at your head, and Smith's militant independence makes her an outcast in her own party. But to their credit, neither is going to change anytime soon...
...course, companies aren't doing this because radicals have stormed the boardrooms. A shortage of workers is driving many of the changes. "We've not faced this sort of talent-critical, labor-critical problem...probably since wartime," says Don Hasbargen, a principal at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm. When as many as 190,000 computer jobs go unfilled, for instance, companies can't afford to be seen as racist, sexist--or even antiunion...
...these delays caused another problem, one stemming directly from Wolfe's determination to make his novels factually accurate. "I always intended to set this book in the present," he says, "but I took so long writing it that the present kept changing...
...racial turmoil portrayed in Bonfire was up front and confrontational and stomping on the streets. Atlanta, as Wolfe portrays it, handles this problem a lot differently. Fareek is a fairly typical contemporary phenomenon, a loutish, sullen, spoiled athlete wearing diamond ear studs and, Roger observes, "a gold chain so chunky you could have used it to pull an Isuzu pickup out of a red clay ditch." Fareek is also a local Atlanta boy who climbed to fame from a poor black neighborhood. And he has now been accused, though not yet formally charged, of date rape by the daughter...
...Roger sees. But the rumors are out there already; a local Internet gossip sheet is adding new details almost daily. Quickly, the city's white business interests and black leadership huddle and come up with a plan. The only person who can defuse or at least damp down this problem is...Charlie Croker...