Word: dashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Better competition. Once blessed by rivals who couldn't tie their own shoes without risking injury, Nike faces a resurgent Adidas, whose sales increased 92% in North America in the last quarter. True, Reebok could still screw up a one-man 100-m dash, but it is pumping fresh money into shoe technology and advertising. New Balance expects sales to rise 25% this year, and fashion brands such as Tommy Hilfiger are breaking out sneaker lines...
...Crimson also seeks to turn the Golden Knights' aggressiveness into an advantage. Lake Placid is an Olympicsized ice surface, which will create room for fleet skaters to dash through overcommitted defenders...
...Dartboard was running late. But if the doors had been open, we would have been sitting in our favorite row in Emerson 210 on time. With the doors locked, Dartboard was left banging on glass, unheard and unaided. We then had to rush around to the side door and dash up the stairs, only to arrive into the distinctive midterm silence of pen on paper. And we apologize--after our minor ordeal, Dartboard had to trample over two poor souls in order to get to the room's one remaining seat. Next time we'll be hours early...
...Anger over last week's massacres by Serb paramilitaries, meanwhile, is boosting Albanian support for the violent actions of the Kosovo Liberation Front. That, together with Serbian intransigence, is likely to dash the best efforts of the international community to keep the peace in the Balkans...
...taken more than three years to plumb that bottom. Long after the 1929 stock-market crash filled Wall Street with eerily silent crowds gaping in stunned apprehension, President Herbert Hoover was still clinging to the deeply held--and widely shared--belief that good old rugged individualism, with just a dash of government help (nothing so radical as a federal dole), would dispel the gathering Depression. But the economy only spiraled lower. By 1933 unemployment had hit 25%; people were foraging in garbage dumps for food; outside almost every large city, shantytowns, known as "Hoovervilles," drew the newly homeless...