Word: nike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time is ripe, they insist, to invade Cuba again, not with an exile army but with the same products--Nike shoes, burgers and MTV--that have helped promote democracy and capitalism around the world. If the U.S. can do business with erstwhile enemies like China and Russia, they argue, why not with Cuba? "This embargo hasn't helped us move the ball," U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Thomas Donohue said last month. "We have carried this anger...
...notice Nike is letting you design your own sneaker on its website. You can even ask for words to be emblazoned on the heel. Are there any words Nike...
...headquarters, about 15 minutes away from the hotel. Seven minutes later, Conrad (the marketing guy) pulls the rental car into the parking lot. The sprawling building before us looks too industrial to be the central office for a major manufacturing company. There is no "campus" a la Microsoft or Nike, no sculptured lawns or basketball courts. We enter the building and make our way through a sea of cubicles (c. 1970). The atmosphere is that of a conventional office; everyone is working hard, the copier hums in the background and commemorative plaques and employee motivation posters decorate the hallways...
...Year's gewgaws. No sooner did the milestone begin looming than advertisers began trying to persuade us to, say, associate the Roman numeral 2000--MM--with a certain candy-coated chocolate. Even the Y2K problem has morphed from potential cataclysm to commercial punch line: a Nike ad shows a man going for a jog New Year's morning as the lights flicker out around town, money shoots out of ATMs, people panic in the streets, and an errant missile zooms by overhead. On the one hand, the passing of a thousand years is staggering for a mortal of perhaps...
Champion pledged to release the locations of all its factories to all of its licensees. That promise goes beyond the disclosures made last month by Nike, which released the locations of only some of its factories and only to those schools that specifically requested the information...