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Carp says Kodak's workers understand the pressure the company is under. But that does not necessarily mitigate their misery. The tyranny of micromanaged productivity, says a veteran employee, hangs like a cloud over Kodak's rank and file: "You're accountable for everything you do, or don't do, all the time. You're worried that you may not have a job from one week to the next, and you don't know whether, if you come up with a good idea to save the company money, you could cost people their jobs...
...dark, its façade concealed behind a vine-covered wall. To the casual observer, the house provides just one clue to its owner's sinister profession. At the end of his driveway sits a large jasmine bush, trimmed into an odd but unmistakable shape: that of a mushroom cloud...
...avoid asking for pain from audiences. It almost never works. But in this case it might have. By offering up the dessert of giving everyone a mutual fund holder, he tacitly undermined his own efforts to make the case that there's a crisis. How can you deploy mushroom-cloud words like "collapse" and then offer free candy? Besides, at some point Bush will have to start talking about the benefit cuts and big-time borrowing that are an inevitable result of diverting revenue from the system. Why not do it now? At a background briefing for reporters earlier...
...luck, if you're Toyota. A year ago, the company's Canadian division announced plans to call one of its new models the Celica Tsunami. The car's tag line: "The new wave of bold style." The sporty coupe was even offered in a dark color dubbed "thunder cloud." But shortly after a real tsunami devastated Asia, the company realized it could face a storm of bad publicity. Toyota pulled its Tsunami ads and has quietly changed the car's name to the Celica Sport Package...
...when Killen, now 79, shuffled back into a courtroom in Philadelphia last week, having finally been arrested for the murders, it was as if a cloud had lifted. Handcuffed and wearing an orange prison jump suit, he pleaded not guilty as his younger brother Jerry knocked down a television cameraman outside the courthouse...