Word: knights
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Robinson Professor of Business Administration James I. Cash sits on the Board of Directors of the Knight-Ridder Corporation. The subpoena would require him to testify on May 1 about a labor dispute between the corporation and the employees of several newspapers owned by Knight-Ridder...
...year. Harvard professor WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON published When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, which he had hoped would influence the debate on welfare reform. It did, but it was too late to head off a welfare bill he opposed. PHIL KNIGHT, CEO of Nike, saw a 77% increase in profits last quarter. That was clouded by the report of a Vietnamese-American labor activist that many Nike shoes are produced at plants in Vietnam where the mostly female work force faces corporal punishment and 12-hr. workdays. All that for about $1.60 a day. Nike promised...
...Seattle Seahawks: Tom Knight, CB, Iowa. Knight goes here because the Seahawks need a corner in a bad way. He's the third best one in the draft, though this might be a little high to take...
...Phil Knight, on the other hand, had a lot riding on this kid. You see, Phil Knight is the CEO of Nike. You know, that company that gave Tiger Woods $60 million guaranteed? Nike is that company that airs all of those advertisements about Tiger and hopes that he will be THE person to sell gazillions of dollars in golf merchandise. Yeah, I think they were pretty friggin' excited about the whole thing...
...someone get Phil Knight and the rest of these corporate geniuses at Nike to back off for once in their lifetime? And when I say geniuses, I mean it. What these guys do works, works well, works frustratingly well. That's why sometimes I feel like it's Nike's world and I'm just living...