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...challenge in the women's market concerns image. For men, Nike can snag Michael Jordan, tack his name onto a shoe and watch as pair after pair fly out of Athlete's Foot stores everywhere. For women, designers have to find another way to generate sales. Thus Martin Lotti, Nike's global creative director of women's footwear, travels the world seeking visual inspiration that he can combine with the company's technology. As he puts it, "If you have an ugly shoe, no one is going...
...trip to Bilbao, Spain, two years ago, Lotti was struck by the wildly spiraling metallic towers of the Guggenheim Museum. "It looked so different from everything around it," he recalls. "I wanted to do the same thing with a shoe." Eighteen months later, Nike unveiled the Air Max Specter, a slip-on sneaker with an upper sole of grooved, sinuous curves, available in the same titanium gray as the museum's exterior. The shoe became the season's No. 1 seller...
...Boston Police have stepped up security around the Boston Garden, the site of tonight's performance. But Detective George Lotti of the Boston Police Public Relations' Office said he wasn't sure if the increased measures were necessitated by the band's ethnic ties with the Boston Irish community or just the group's general popularity...
Last February four former Colonia Dignidad members went before a Bonn parliamentary subcommittee and described their lives as regimes of terror. Lotti Packmor, 55, who left the colony with her husband in 1985 and now lives in Canada, said she had seen young boys given injections in their testicles and described Schafer as having beaten a young girl until "blood spurted from her nose." Added Georg Packmor: "No one dares even to think of escaping." A colony spokesman denied the charges and said that such alleged witnesses were mentally ill, alcoholics, adulterers and drug addicts...
...with manufactured goods, machinery and construction services. As one result, Finland for the past two years has shown economic growth rates of 7.2% and 5.3% respectively, well above the average for the 24 industrialized countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Says Leila Lotti, 36, research director for the Finnish branch of the Gallup poll organization: "America just doesn't understand our trade with the Soviet Union. It's helped Finland out tremendously...