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...spring are off too. Inventories ballooned as customers shunned boring products with high prices. And because Nike cranks out an entirely new product line every year, it has been powerless to stop the damage. "You are always six months away from disaster," says Nike's chairman and shoe-bah, Phil Knight. Nike's earnings projections have been dropping like so many Tiger Woods putts. Worse, the company's top shoe salesman, fella named Jordan, is threatening to retire to run his own little business...
From Bowerman, a legendary coach, Knight got two things: an innovative track shoe and a relentless appetite for competition. "Every time I tour people around, I show them a picture of Phil Knight running behind Jim Grelle," says Hollister, who ran track with Knight and became one of Nike's first employees. It was Knight's customary position. Grelle was a champion, and Knight never caught him, says Hollister, but he never stopped pursuing. Another Oregon track god, Steve Prefontaine, became patriarch of the culture. "Pre," a rebellious soul and ferocious competitor, prodded Knight endlessly to improve the quality...
...means are they trouble free. Make no mistake: these are factories, not amusement parks, and even in developing Asia, where jobs are scarce and getting scarcer, this is not the employment of choice. It's low-tech assembly work that hasn't changed much since Nike chairman Phil Knight first started sourcing sneakers in Japan 35 years ago. Since then, the work has migrated in search of ever cheaper labor...
...they wrote for a church whose large non-European realms should not have to shoulder too much Holocaust guilt. They believe We Remember's good bold strokes will be remembered long after its disputed details. Even the report's critics obviously wanted to like it. American Jewish Congress official Phil Baum, who released a statement predicting that the historical record will eventually show a "deliberate failure of the church generally to respond" to the Shoah, adds on the phone, "We are not disparaging of the Pope's efforts to live with this responsibility." Sighs Deborah Lipstadt, a Holocaust-studies expert...
...scandal sheet in question -- The Star -- still insists Gecker was pushing for that amount. Editor Phil Bunton considered Willey?s story to be ?not worth more than $50,000.? And Gecker doesn?t deny talking to the tabloid altogether, nor does he deny that Willey was looking for a book deal from publisher Michael Viner. At week?s end, these little details -- along with Julie Steele?s claim that Willey asked her to lie to Newsweek -- have done more to damage Willey?s credibility than any White House spin doctoring...