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Despite the pounding, Nike is still the force in athletics. Reebok chairman Paul Fireman has admitted as much to Wall Street analysts. Curiously, Fireman blamed Nike's ascension for the current malaise of the footwear category. "The way it came about was clearly the proliferation of a single brand," Fireman said at February's Super Show, the industry's big trade fair. As Nike pulled away over the past couple of years, retailers began to up their swoosh orders. At the urging of retailers (they hate having any one brand dominate), competitors began to ape Nike's look. Says Fireman...
Starring Robert Rubin As the Fireman As Korea's financial crisis threatens to take the whole region down, the most important player in quietly keeping the bailout under control is Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin...
Starring Robert Rubin As the Fireman As Korea's financial crisis threatens to take the whole region down, the most important player in quietly keeping the bailout under control is Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin...
...slim, hard-muscled Robert Redford. The son of a Philadelphia bartender and a clerk for the Internal Revenue Service, he coasted through Archbishop Ryan High School but never thought about college. "I didn't like school," he explains, "except for the girls and parties." He tried to become a fireman but failed the test. "The math was too hard," he says. "The police exam was easier; that's how I became...
...gold leaf were used. Replacing the ceiling of St. George's Hall required 350 mature oaks. The ceiling that the fire destroyed dated from the 1820s, and Prince Charles, believing it was "awful," called for a new design. In a personal touch, Prince Philip made a sketch with a fireman working to save the building, and that became the basis for a new stained-glass window...