Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like a teenager after a growth spurt, Nike is a multibillion-dollar monster finding its size awkward. Knight's challenge is to re-create the essence of the outfit he first operated out of the trunk of his car with his college track coach and a bunch of running geeks who would do anything to avoid a real job. But this won't be a jog in the park. Last week the company announced a restructuring that landed heavily on its sports center-cum-headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., where about 250 employees were laid off. "When you grow quickly," says...
...going to be annihilated after all, crowed the TV newsies in their irritating way. Seems the scientists had miscalculated. A bunch of astronomers announced that the space slab's going to miss us by a good 600,000 miles. This letdown came the day after another bunch of astronomers (who had apparently paid less attention in high school trigonometry class) announced a miss of approximately 30,000 lousy miles, which left open the possibility of a good, solid creaming should a tailwind or something come along at the right moment. How depressing...
...ties to the Rev. Jerry Falwell has paid $200,000 to people making allegations against Clinton--a charge Falwell's camp denies). But the barrage of 'zine commentary, columnizing and contrarian analyses of the latest media spins can be numbing, not to say superfluous. "We're not just a bunch of pundits shouting for attention," protests Kinsley. "We're trying to clear through and sort out the clutter." Or do they just add to it? Readers are about to render their verdict...
SHOULD WINDuvall again. His performance is nothing short of a tour de force, and the most dynamic of this oddly chosen bunch...
...ticklesome and, yes, endearingly delightful, delightfully endearing: Check out the lovely and talented CityStep's Excellent Adventure show on your return from break. Along with the perennial pleasure of seeing the token wheezing kid flailing about, the whole thing's always an underrated spectacle. Who can turn down a bunch of kids enjoying themselves while a show is going on in their midst? The feat of training and rehearsals is truly stupendous and deserves some attention. Good, clean fun without a trace of smut...