Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stanford, where he later earned a graduate business degree, the running-shoe market continued to intrigue Knight. Would it be possible, he thought, for Japanese-made running shoes to grab a big share of the U.S. market, just as Nikon cameras were beginning to do in the field of photography? Two years after Knight's graduation in 1962, he and Bowerman went into partnership. They put up $500 each for 300 pairs of Tiger running shoes made by Onitsuka of Japan and stored them in Knight's father's basement. At first they sold them only...
Nike Inc. essentially grew from there pushed along mainly by Knight's marketing savvy. Knight and Bowerman came out with a shoe they had designed in time for the 1972 Olympic trials that were held in Eugene, Ore. They got marathoners to wear them and proudly advertised that Nikes were on the feet of "four of the top seven finishers." Nike's ads neglected to mention that runners wearing West Germany's Adidas shoes placed first, second and third...
...Allen Counter, associate professor of neuroscience at the Medical School, said that during the last six months he has been discussing the mechanics of the Foundation with interested students, but that the new agency is now "operating on a shoe string budget...
Police estimated the value of property stolen from February 3 to 11 at $4907.36, including a TV a camera lens from the Science Carter and one Adidas running shoe...
...ongoing study and the brainstorming sessions with students shoe the burden of loan and jobs is becoming intolerable, or that Harvard's resources simply cannot stretch enough to continue funding all accepted applicants, officials will have to begin discussing whether to admit some applicants without assurance of financial aid consider applicants financial situation when making admissions decisions of adopt some kind of compromise among these options Jewett said...