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...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...
...this slangy, tangy first novel from Britain has seen it all. Or so he thinks, until the Eagle falls into the hands of managers from the head office, who express concern for their "customer-stroke-guests" while remaining oblivious to the shenanigans under their noses. Throw in a racist thug, some lovable Cockneys and Rastafarians, and a whiff of violence, and you've got a small bomb just waiting to explode. The plot here is incidental; what takes center stage is the driving, driven narrative voice...
...picking the hoof of an Appaloosa named Darcy I was about to ride. The name seemed incongruous to me. Eric looked up slowly from under the hat and drawled, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune," etc. A racist outfit called Aryan Nation once tried to set up shop in Eric's home town, he told me. Everybody got together and ran them out, then went on about their business. Aryan Nation is strong in parts of Idaho, but Wyoming is, or was, different...
...Obviously Freud is racist, sexist," she said. "He is very much a product of his time. On a deeper level...[his work] was very liberating...
...What! The founder of Planned Parenthood, the darling of the left-wing, was racist...