Word: marathoning
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Wiley's accomplishments extend far beyond the cross-country route. Last year, the Canadian ran in her country's Olympic marathon trials and missed qualifying for the team by only a few second...
...products were first picked up by aerobic dancers. They and others especially liked models with a stylish, light leather exterior. The company also promoted Reeboks as a favorite of the dedicated athlete, an image bolstered when Steve Jones, who set a world record in Chicago's America's Marathon, was photographed in a pair of Reeboks. Last year total U.S. sales reached $65 million, up from $3.5 million three years ago. The overall market for athletic and running shoes, in contrast, has been flat...
Murdoch and Kluge, already friends, exchanged pleasantries; before long, Kluge was sounding out Murdoch and Davis about selling them Metromedia's string of television stations. A discussion over dinner led the following day to serious talks, which eventually led to marathon meetings in Kluge's apartment in New York's Waldorf Towers. As the hard-driving Murdoch described the complex bargaining that followed, "You find things you don't expect, you shout, you scream...
...road to Boot Key Marina reflects an earlier, but no more graceful, state of Marathon's history. In a moldering trailer park a resident sits listlessly on top of a motorcycle, airing her black eye. Towers of lobster traps fill a fish yard. A dilapidated fish market offers the catch fresh from the fleet. The water in the harbor is a long way from crystalline...
...gentrification of Boot Key Marina has begun. At the end of March the Pluhars sold it to a man named John Theurer. Rumor swept through Marathon that the selling price was over $2 million. Nobody knew much about the buyer. Up and down Highway 1, in the banks and the bars and the early-morning breakfast places, people were telling one another that he was part of the Theurer family that had made its money in truck- trailer manufacturing. "To be fair, no one knows what he is going to do with the marina," said a longtime resident, sitting...