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...shoe market, which accounts for about half the $33 billion spent worldwide, compared with Nike's 36%. "North America is the market where you have to be," Hainer said. The deal is the latest sign that Adidas is trying to pump up its image. Over the past year, legendary boxer Muhammad Ali and rapper Missy Elliott have appeared in marketing campaigns. The firm has also hired Stella McCartney and Yohji Yamamoto to design sportswear. But Nike is aggressively challenging Adidas on its home turf of European soccer. It has signed up more than 40 clubs, including Manchester United and Barcelona...
...which seems to be fueled at least in part by lingering feelings of insecurity and self-doubt. Maybe it's her well-known history as a onetime careerless divorced mom who spent nearly a year on public assistance, but she still constantly questions her writing, reviewing it like a boxer watching tapes of his fights. "I think Phoenix could have been shorter. I knew that, and I ran out of time and energy toward the end," she says. She is worried that Goblet was overpraised. "In every single book, there's stuff I would go back and rewrite," she says...
Like Rocky Balboa, the movie boxer, the plan to change the federal tax system keeps coming back for more punishment. Just when the idea has been battered to the canvas, it struggles to its feet again. Last week reform went another round, this time energized by a fresh proposal from the House Ways and Means Committee. Some of the populist ideals found in the Reagan Administration's two earlier proposals remain alive in this one. The bill would cut tax rates, close loopholes, give relief to millions of working poor people and make corporations carry a greater share...
RETIRED. MIKE TYSON, 38, volatile American boxer who in 1986 became the youngest-ever world heavyweight champion at the age of 20; after forfeiting a fight against Irishman Kevin McBride; in Washington, D.C. Tyson, who won 50 of 58 bouts?44 by knockout?during his career, earned a reputation as a brute inside and outside the ring. In 1992 he was convicted of raping a woman in Indiana and spent three years in prison. He was suspended from boxing in 1997 for a year after he bit off a piece of opponent Evander Holyfield's ear. In his final fight...
...SENATOR BOXER: The nominee has testified that she does not even wear a seat belt. Can anyone in this committee room give me a reason she should be confirmed...