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Hundreds of companies marketing clothes and accessories dedicated to the "board-sports" life-style are operating in Velcro Valley. They range from Oakley, the $200 million sunglasses-and-footwear firm housed in a futuristic, $47 million hilltop bunker, to smaller fry like Black Flys, Split and Volcom, crowded into Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach industrial parks...
...other essays were honored by the TIAA-CREF with certificates, while a book by Dora L. Costa, an associate professor of economics at MIT, won the grand prize, the Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Life-time Financial Security...
Harvard Professor of Economics Claudia D. Goldin '88 said, "Costa has produced the definitive work on why and how we retired and learned to enjoy our older years...
...Republic of Congo; feed mills in Ecuador, Nigeria and Congo; 3,100 acres of shrimp ponds in Ecuador and Honduras; 37,000 acres of sugarcane, 4,200 acres of citrus and a sugar mill, all in Argentina; a winery in Bulgaria; other agricultural and business interests in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Venezuela; electric-power-generating facilities in the Dominican Republic; shipping companies in Liberia; containerized cargo vessels running between Miami and Central and South America; and, of course, the processing plant and hog farms in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Colorado, along with poultry-processing plants, feed mills, hatcheries...
...Just from my few years of being in the army, Iwill not go to work unless I shave," Costa says."I will not go to work unless my belt buckle islined up with the buttons on my shirt...