Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rules. Nike, like most of the big American firms, does not own any factories in Indonesia; it hires Korean and Taiwanese-owned factories to supply footwear made to Nike specifications. The company has some 800 staff members in Asia whose responsibility includes factory inspection. Yet, says an industry source, "shoe factories are huge. There are 3,000 workers in there. Our inspectors try to manage, but it's a big beast." Overall, the lot of Indonesian workers is improving. Real wages increased 55% from 1990 to 1995, according to the World Bank. "This is a pretty decent story," says Dennis...
...budget R-rated movies--has been one of the prime attractions of pay cable ever since its birth in the 1970s. But it wasn't until just a few years ago that programmers began rolling out their own regularly-scheduled erotic dramas; Showtime was first with Red Shoe Diaries. Knock-offs like the network's own lower-rent Love Street have been popping up ever since, and while they vary significantly in terms of production values, most do quite well in the ratings. Showtime's Diaries is one of the network's highest-rated programs; the same is true...
...tell they offer a somewhat better grade of porn than the local adult video store because they don't star actors named Long or Chesty; instead they feature respectable, if not always heavily-employed, talents like Emily Lloyd and Julian Sands, who played the aforementioned George. Red Shoe Diaries is narrated by X-Files star David Duchovny, who has hosted the series since it first aired, pre-X-Files, four years ago (back when the actor was presumably eager for this sort of work...
After his graduation from Harvard, Goldstein was offered a job in Caracas with Standard Oil. The "little girl following me" --his future wife--helped him decide to join his father in the shoe business at home...
Salvatore ("The Senator") Greco (cousin of The Shoe...