Word: shoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Protesters specifically targeted their criticism on clothing manufacturer Guess? Inc., shoe distributor Nike, Inc. and the Walt Disney Corporation, an entertainment conglomerate...
...year-old P.L.A.Y. program provides children with coaches, activities, clinics and camps. P.L.A.Y. is also sponsoring project Reuse-a-Shoe, which turns old shoes into sports surfaces...
...limbs. Both were too expensive for the common man, and neither permitted very much mobility. Besides, as Sethi explains, the old artificial limb was a cultural misfit not just for Indians but for people in most developing countries. "We sit, eat, sleep and worship on the floor--all without shoes," he says. Also, the "shoe" attached to the old limb was made of heavy sponge, making it worthless for any farmer working in the rain or in irrigated paddies...
...shoe is on the other foot. The Americans are coming and bringing with them the attitudes of a society mired in the complacency of mass consumption. Elderly American tourists crowd the art museums looking for Diego Velazquez and Joan Miro prints to send home to the family, snapping photos ransacking gift shops along the way. At night, everybody straggles home from the bars and discotheques, but it is the Americans who are singing...
Vaclav Havel has a sense of humor, but too far is too far. The Czech President has asked his lawyers to seek almost $150,000 in damages from a shoe company that depicted him being licked by a terrier on a poster, according to the daily newspaper Dnes. What riled him was not the image but the English slogan, which contains the F word...