Word: jacobses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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So it was something of a shock to see a capacity crowd of 41,948 stream into brand-new Jacobs Field last Wednesday evening to root, root, root for the best team in baseball, the Cleveland Indians. The press box was crowded; Manny Ramirez stood where George Vukovich once stood...
There are many reasons for the Indians' turnaround: an infusion of capital from brothers Richard and David Jacobs, who bought the club at the end of the 1986 season; the leadership of Mike Hargrove, the manager who steadied the team after a tragic boating accident in the spring of '93...
JOSHUA QUITTNER'S "WHY EMPEROR BILL Should Rule" [Cover Stories, June 5] neatly describes the frustrations shared by users of personal computers. The unreliability of these machines, caused mainly by integration of hybrid software, is the reason Big Business has stayed loyal to the mainframe. Bill Gates has been the...
None of this is to say that the Karl Lagerfelds or Donna Karans of this world have not deservedly transformed the way we view, and wear, clothing. Many designers become editors' darlings simply because quality will win out and because anointing new talent is an important part of a fashion...
...course they're from Scandinavia. Designed in 1957 by a Copenhagen yoga instructor named Anne Kals¿, the shoes were first marketed in the U.S. under license by Raymond and Eleanor Jacobs in 1970. Impressed by Earth Day crowds gathering near their just opened store in New York City, the Jacobses made a snap decision to change the name of their product that very day from Anne Kals¿ Minus Heel Shoes to Earth Shoes. From a marketing standpoint, it was probably a wise move. Indeed, the couple soon found themselves presiding over a multimillion-dollar business. At the height of their...