Word: whirlpool
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...forbidding employers to ban guns from company parking lots. State legislator Jerry Ellis says law-abiding hunters should be allowed to stow firearms in their cars at work. Employees with violent intent, Ellis says, "are not going to be stopped no matter how many laws you have." The Whirlpool appliance company, backed by other Oklahoma businesses, is suing to keep from complying with the law, which was supposed to take effect Nov. 1. Whirlpool, which employs 1,500 workers at its Tulsa, Okla., plant, says protecting them means banning guns completely from company premises, including the parking lot. U.S. Judge...
...conversion of romantic poetry to electric signals weren’t avant-garde enough—a disco ball suspended from the ceiling then projected this encoded verse onto the gallery walls, inundating viewers in a dizzying whirlpool of light and color...
...Vegas is a metaphor for the future of the U.S. [July 26]. Excess freedom when mixed with excess wealth has its disadvantages. Perhaps Sin City might eventually spin into a larger whirlpool and create a Sin Country. History has its lessons: Rome had its Colosseum; America has its Las Vegas. KADIRI FATAH Otta, Nigeria...
...Whirlpool can pull off a glamorous product introduction, any brand can apply a little gloss. The mystery therefore extends to getting it right. The plethora of bad glamour out there makes good stuff look even better. Given the clutter that chokes our every day, real glamour may even be the last marketing strategy with any dignity...
...difficult to execute. It must be sophisticated yet have a self-deprecating wit. Mercedes, a brand with impeccably aristocratic roots, has stumbled frequently in its attempts at humor, most recently in TV spots featuring a race to the airport and a genie in a bottle. On the other hand, Whirlpool introduced a Benz-like washing machine in a brilliant onetime use of comic glamour when it debuted its Calypso model with psychedelics and a deadpan sense of humor...