Word: taco
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Over the course of my first few days at Cleveland Indians’ Spring Training I have experienced many firsts, from having a bearded woman take my order at the local Winter Haven Taco Bell to seeing my name sewn on the back of a professional baseball jersey. Almost from the onset, I have felt like an alien in a foreign country...
...management. Topping the list of issues were company sustainability reports, which “address the economic, environmental and social performance of the company.” The committees agreed to oppose the issuance of sustainability reports for five companies, including General Electric and Yum! Brands, which owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. The vote came despite a two-year boycott of Taco Bell because of allegedly poor working conditions for its tomato pickers. The report called it “unreasonable” to ask for sustainability reports “in the absence of a clear definition...
...nearly half a century, watching network TV was like eating at a school cafeteria. You chose from the limited options that day, take 'em or leave 'em, and you ate when they were served. If you missed Taco Tuesday, you were out of luck until next time it came around...
...best efforts to find local gems serving traditional Catalan fare, we couldn't shake dishes of gluey paella, watery gazpacho, oversalted cod and lamb scraps advertised as cutlet. In Madrid, where Moroccan food is in vogue, we ordered a salad at a trendy place called Mosaiq and received taco filling. A dollop of wasabi next to a greasy piece of fish was the chef's idea of fusion...
...suggestion that the real narrator might be a teenage Christopher forging his past. The novel runs more smoothly when the bizarre, the supernatural, and the downright impossible are delivered deadpan and unexplained. In this mode we meet a kaleidoscopic whirl of characters: scientist grandparents who invent an Inconsumable Taco to end Mexican hunger, man-eating apocalyptic coyotes, and Machiavellian politicians who hide microchips in sugar to read opponents’ minds over morning coffee. Christopher’s voice leaps in style from snake oil charlatan to coke addict to dyspeptic political pundit. A prenatal savant, he fires off puns...