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When the jogging and fitness craze began in the mid-1970s, athletic-shoe manufacturers were dubbed "Adidas and the Seven Dwarfs." But by the early 1980s, while West Germany's Adidas remained No. 1 outside the U.S., fast- rising Nike dominated the American market. The company was started in 1972 by current chairman Philip Knight, 52, a University of Oregon graduate, and Bill Bowerman, 78, his former track coach, who used a waffle iron to make their first soles. (The now famous Swoosh trademark on the side of the shoes was designed by an art student for $35.) Nike...
Since the mid-1970s, most development has occurred in the areas served by the Red Line, which runs along Mass. Ave. But Rosenberg said the new route would not open up many new sites for commercial development...
Cheney, 48, is a sixth-term conservative congressman from Wyoming who served as White House chief of staff in the Ford Administration in the mid-1970s...
...solution appeared in 1978 in a plan hoped to counteract the damaging laissez-faire legacy of the 1960s. A Harvard curriculum liberated by a decade of student unrest--following a trend that had swept colleges from coast to coast--had become by the mid-1970s incoherent and "soft", offering courses such as "the aesthetics of film comedy" and "the civilization of continental and island Portugal" to fulfill humanities requirements, according to a contemporary article in the Saturday Review...
Although the city assumed a strong pro-development stance in the mid-1970s, the eastern end of Harvard Square has remained relatively free of the shops and hotels that have come to characterize the central portion of the Square...