Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point of death he finds a few of his old tools lying on the floor and starts to make shoes again. To the old man's surprise and delight, his sons return home from the modern shoe plant they manage and join him at an activity both familiar and strange to them. The sons are engaged in a practice wrenched from its original circumstances, geography and social environment, yet it is one that allows them to be a family again; it is a practice that is somehow their own. They, like Walzer, have become communitarians who must find their home...
Reebok's $180 million acquisition of Avia Group International is another case of like marrying like: both companies make aerobics shoes. Reebok, which clads the feet of the fashion conscious, controls about 70% of the $330 million aerobics-shoe market. Privately held Avia, whose sales have risen from $3 million to more than $70 million during the past three years, enjoys about a 15% market share...
Cuomo, Nunn, and Baker all have as good a chance as anyone. Some would say the senator from Georgia has a better one because the Democrat's nominee will probably be chosen on Super Tuesday in the South, and Nunn would be a shoe-in there running against Gary Hart or Mike Dukakis...
...heavily used by suburban commuters. There, vans operated by Kwik Wash, a local laundry service, pick up the bundles. In the afternoon at the same stop, riders get the clothes back, clean and neatly folded. Cost: 85 cents per lb. If the program is a success, film processing and shoe repair may be next...
...Brien's in dey Vieux Carre, and you drink two o'those, you say, "Doucement!," start feelin' like a nutria gettin' whomped on dey head! And I tell you what - C'est vrai, babe! - Dey teach dat Scorpion Bowl how to sting! Put one o' dem in your shoe, you gon' holler...