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...considered acceptable, Linden said. The second part of the event centered on a discussion of Genesis 38:1-11, a Biblical passage used by some Christian and Jewish scholars to justify religious prohibitions on masturbation and other non-procreative sexual activities. The passage tells the story of the character Onan, who engages in “coitus interruptus” and is killed by God as a punishment...
...movie "classics" are Caddyshack and Porky's, not Earth Girls Are Easy and Clueless), and since the jokes they make often have a pretty deep misogynist streak, they play to the one audience they think will appreciate them: their male friends, which is to say, themselves. To each his Onan...
...trailers make up 80% of RVs sold, but the big money is still in motor homes, which account for roughly two-thirds of industry revenue. RVs are made with components from many companies--say, a chassis from Workhorse Custom Chassis, slide-out gear from Actuant and a generator from Onan, a division of Cummins. Back in 2001, RV demand fell so low that some assembly lines and entire plants had to be idled. Industry leader Winnebago of Forest City, Iowa, avoided layoffs with four-day workweeks and a short production halt late in the year. But as demand shot...
...pending in federal district court in New Jersey charges AT&T with "wearaway," which leaves older workers caught in a cash-balance conversion toiling for years before they start earning new benefits. (The company denies the charges.) A similar case is set to go to trial next spring against Onan Corp., a subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co. Says William Carr, an attorney representing workers in the case: "These plans are a profit center." Only now, considering the outcry, companies like IBM will start to wonder whether the costs outweigh the benefits...
Most firms won't be that accommodating. "We're talking about the people who are most vulnerable and career trapped," says Michele Varnhagen of the Pension Rights Center. People like Stephen Langlie, a retired engineer at Onan Corp., a Minnesota subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co., who claims his current, $420 monthly check under the cash-balance plan, to which the company switched in 1989, pales in comparison with the $1,500 projected under the old plan. Many colleagues have joined him in a class action against Onan...