Word: fabricate
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What's exciting about industrial fabric such as tire belting? Plenty, if you can sell more of it than anyone else in the world. Sabanci, 47, heads the tire and reinforcement-materials division of the Sabanci Group, her family's industrial and financial conglomerate, based in Istanbul. Under her watch, the division has entered Latin America and the Middle East and become No. 1 in its industry. Operations in China and Indonesia are to start this year. Sabanci spends her free time tending her small vineyard in western Turkey...
...searched sporting-goods stores, catalogs and the Internet for a synthetic shirt that would shed sweat as fast as the Lycra compression shorts he wore under his football pants. High-end specialists who sold gear for mountaineering and skiing offered pricey garments made with an inner layer of fabric that wicked perspiration away from the skin to an outer layer where it would evaporate. These clothes helped prevent hypothermia in extreme cold. But nobody made what Plank wanted: an affordable, featherweight, moisture-wicking T shirt--one that would fit skintight so it would lie flat under straps and pads...
...graduation neared, Plank, then 23, decided to explore the product niche he had identified. In March 1996, he bought some stretchy lingerie material at a fabric store and had a tailor make up samples of athletic undershirts. He handed them out to fellow members of the Maryland football squad, who found them comfortable and edgy looking--and clamored for more. That told Plank he was onto something. His older brother Bill, an architect, contributed the macho name Under Armour, and an artist friend designed a sleekly minimalist logo. Working out of the basement of a house in Georgetown...
...arms against burns from artificial turf. These were dubbed Turf Gear. Later, Plank got a call from his high school teammate Ryan Wood, then an assistant football coach at Arizona State University. The team needed thick undershirts for an away game against Washington State University. Plank found heavy wicking fabric and created Cold Gear...
Next year’s surveys should include evaluations for non-resident tutors and must be offered in Leverett and Quincy Houses. After students give their feedback this year, it should become obvious that these surveys do not disrupt the fabric of House community; they only strengthen...