Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past year, Reebok has been selling a women's running shoe with a name--Incubus--that inspires fear rather than fleetness. Incubus is a mythical demon that rapes sleeping women. Reebok says no one has complained; in fact, the shoe has sold better than expected...
Before becoming the home of the Cambridge Toy Box, the Spite Building has served as a cobbler's shop, candy store, newspaper storage area and shoe store, Hardina said...
...customer at neighboring shoe store Allston Beat, who identified himself only as Bob, said he knew both the manager of the JFK Street Strawberries and people in the company's management...
...CalPERS and others are getting drunk with power--as did brash dealmakers in the power seats of the '80s. Consider this year's losers list, announced last week. Sure, it has some real dogs, such as struggling Apple Computers Inc. and Stride Rite, a worn-out shoe company. But CalPERS also stepped on sneaker company Reebok. This is odd, given that Reebok's stock has doubled in 10 months and beaten the market averages handily in the past year. That's not all: Reebok shares have risen an average annual 29% since the bull market began in October 1990--outdistancing...
...profit and expenses. "We're not making $100 sneakers with slave labor in Taiwan," Mr. Shepard reminded me. Certainly not--the production of Xeroxes of Voltaire's letters for Harvard students in Winchester, Mass. by a well-paid staff isn't really comparable to the practices of particular shoe companies. We accept Mr. Shepard's point, even if it is not entirely clear, but his earnest "We try to do the very best we can" quite sold...