Word: maytag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quiet the night Fifteen Minutes came, which is probably typical. A lone woman pushed a stroller in the parking lot, while in the Peabody Terrace laundry room, Lee Branstetter loaded his clothes into the Maytag washers. Branstetter, a third year Economics Ph.D. candidate, likes living in Peabody Terrace. He says many of its residents are families and students from abroad. "In the spring and summer, all these kids from different cultures come out to play," says Branstetter, who has lived in Peabody Terrace for two years. "It's like a Benetton commercial...
...VACUUM CLEANER OR WASHING MACHINE from Maytag's British subsidiary, Hoover, and get two air tickets to the U.S. or continental Europe, free! Sound like a good deal? You bet! Such a good deal, in fact, that Hoover sold tens of thousands of appliances -- far more than the company anticipated. Great! Right...
...contracted by Hoover to supply the service were overwhelmed by the demand. They placed unreasonable conditions on the freebie flights -- expensive extras, inconvenient airports, undesirable departure dates -- that seemed designed to discourage customers from claiming their free tickets. But the uproar from disgruntled Hoover users was so great that Maytag's managers back in the U.S. stepped in and fired three top Hoover executives. Maytag also set up a $30 million fund to pay for the promised flights, which, the company says, would be granted to all those who qualified for the promotion...
...campaign trail. In a television interview a week before Election Day, Bush lamented wistfully, "I haven't heard anything on any of these public forums about foreign policy." Thomas Friedman, chief diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times, said that during the candidate debates he "felt like the Maytag repairman," the advertising character who famously has no work...
Perot isn't latter-day Paul Revere, here to warn us of inevitable disaster. He's more like a political version of the Maytag Man, here to repair something that doesn't yet need to be fixed...