Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cons. Connies. Chucks. High-tops. All Stars. By any name, the Converse Chuck Taylor All Star basketball shoe is an American classic -- and still a hot seller. For sheer endurance, the simple canvas and vulcanized-rubber shoe (price: $32) now ranks up there with leather bomber jackets, Levi's and Coca-Cola. Last week Converse celebrated the 75th birthday of the All Star and launched an ad campaign that includes a battery of five-second TV spots...
...high polish don't deform unless a little actual physical bending is applied, but that fact doesn't interfere with the parties taking place in Washington. The "flyers" of transcendental meditation spend $5,000 and up to learn how to bounce around on a rubber mattress, but they never get airborne. No amount of evidence against any transcendental claims will dampen the fervor of the believers...
More often, Felix is only asked to rebuild aheel or repair a sole. Customers often bring in anew pair of shoes so he can attach a rubber bottommade by Pirelli, the Italian tire company. Thisrubber bottom protects the leather sole from wear.Most jobs cost 10 or 20 dollars, but he works onshoes that cost $200 or $300, or more. Shoes asdressy as a Brooks Brothers suit but ascomfortable as a well-worn flight jacket. "My timeis your time. I'm gonna be taking the time toexplain to the customer what it is that I'm doing.That...
...House ethics committee completed its probe into the scandal and recommended that the House disclose the names of its 24 biggest offenders. Russ, 46, found himself at the center of the scandal. Criticized for mismanaging the bank, he was also accused of cashing $10,000 worth of his own rubber checks while running the bank...
Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night, it seems, will keep the House of Representatives away from scandal. Only last October came embarrassing revelations that some lawmakers had written rubber checks totaling more than $100,000 at the House bank and had tallied $300,000 in free meals at House restaurants. Last month the House named a six-member bipartisan task force to look into a new imbroglio at the House post office...