Word: phil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press conference, the Indiana Pacers announced that Bird--No. 33 in the rafters--was their new coach. Bird will get an estimated $4.5 million a year to return home. His predecessor, Larry Brown, was just lured to the Philadelphia 76ers for $5 million a year. Hmmm. Kind of makes Phil Jackson wonder what he's worth, what with the Chicago Bulls headed for another title...
...river with sandbags and plywood. Mostly, they lost. There was some discussion of whether any of this could have been minimized. Some blamed the National Weather Service for underestimating the river after the melting of a record snowfall, but others said better information wouldn't have saved towns anyway. Phil Cogan, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Administration, stood on the banks of a new Grand Forks lake and shared the one truth taught him by countless disasters: "Mother Nature will find a way over, under or around anything you put in its path...
...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...
...runs eight 900-number phone lines through which he hopes to minister to American Dreams. His own dream is of becoming "a major player in the turtle trade." Not far away, as Mike Bryan tells us in Uneasy Rider: The Interstate Way of Knowledge (Knopf; 349 pages; $25), is Phil ("Shorty") Kendrick, a former egg deliverer who, having seen Jesus, is planning a 450-ft. model of Noah's ark. So far his kingdom extends mostly to a 14-year-old camel he drags around for cameos in Easter pageants...
...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...