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Such clever marketing tactics have helped make Nike the icon for the new China. According to a recent Hill & Knowlton survey, Chinese consider Nike the Middle Kingdom's "coolest brand." Just as a new Flying Pigeon bicycle defined success when reforms began in the 1980s and a washing machine that could also scrub potatoes became the status symbol a decade later, so the Air Jordan--or any number of Nike products turned out in factories across Asia--has become the symbol of success for China's new middle class. Sales rose 66% last year, to an estimated $300 million...
...ibis was not in great shape,” says Abrams. “It had been a pigeon roost, and we really hadn’t had much of a chance to clean...
MEANWHILE IN LONDON ... Flight of Fancy Cold war-era military officials cooked up plans to use pigeons as kamikaze bombers, according to top-secret files made public last week. Fitted with explosive capsules of chemical agents, the Air Ministry claimed the birds could strike a target up to 320 km away. But MI5 branded the report's author a "menace in pigeon affairs," and, happily for the birds, the plans never took...
...haven’t gone anywhere in a year and a half. [I’m] hoping I’ll go back into the field,” she said. “I feel pigeon-holed right now. I hope next contract I can be a reporter...
Coming off a similar loss to Bucknell last week, the Crimson will have to avoid going extended periods of time without scoring and can’t get pigeon-holed by early mistakes...