Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Byrd E. Warlick, Jim's father and his partner in the campaign button business, said it was clear that Bush would be no shoe...
...will turn them in for more. The cards will be tallied by the two senior citizens working inthe back room. Supporters are phoned on electionday and offered a ride, undecideds will be visitedagain tomorrow. In this primary, no candidaterelies on television spots to do the job. It takesold-fashioned shoe-leather politics. Every votethat Harkin gets represents one or two visits by acampaign worker, several phone calls and brochuresstuffed in the mailbox...
Clothing and shoe manufacturers, sugar and citrus growers, microchip manufacturers and dairy farmers, all receive some sort of protection or subsidy from a U.S. government seemingly bent on ignoring the long-term prosperity of its people. These economic pressure groups obtain the force of law for the coddling of their interests. In turn, they harm the purchasers of their own products and those in other nations who depend upon these industries for their livelihood...
...secret of the success of the Nike corporation, which began to make its famous footwear in 1971 and grew from an unknown also-ran in the shoe business to the universally familiar $3 billion institution of today, is that it understood that sneakers embodied the values of the people who wore them. / Americans wanted a well-made, high-tech athletic shoe not because it was a necessity but because the consciousness of the country had changed. "Jogging," "getting in shape," "working out" were part of the new life-style (another '70s concept), and Nike gave customers a stylish shoe...
...chairman and founder of Nike Inc. and the protagonist of Swoosh is Phil Knight, a former distance runner at the University of Oregon and a laconic accountant who thought it would be more enjoyable to sell shoes than balance checkbooks. He started out representing a Japanese running shoe called Tiger but realized he could create and hawk his own American shoe. Nike was named for the winged Greek goddess of victory and given the now familiar "Swoosh" logo (at the time, someone said it resembled an upside-down Puma insignia). At first Nike made shoes for serious runners...