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...lose their jobs. It will be the latest in a series of hard-luck hits for the area, which lost 30 or 40 businesses, its only hospital and the CSX railroad when the Black Fork River flooded in 1985. Another flood in early 1996 provided sufficient excuse for a shoe plant employing 135 to close down and move abroad. That makes a small charcoal plant with 150 workers the largest single employer in Tucker County, where many of the miners reside. Beyond that, most of the jobs are seasonal and part-time in ski resorts or fast-food joints that...
...years, says he has become convinced of the underlying resilience of local economies. "When we lost the railroad depot years ago, we thought we were done for, but then we had an oil boom. When that ended, we thought we were done for, but then a shoe factory came. Then that closed, but we had companies like Minwax, Haliburton, Sparton horns and a German company, Hella, that makes relay switches...
...golf, tennis and football. (A Committee on Sports Relinquishment counterproposed that instead of supremacy in golf and tennis, Her Majefty's subjects be enfranchised with their own Grand Flam events. "Football they can have," reported the Hon. Jerry Maquire. "Hey, I hold this truth to be self-evident: the shoe money's small. Befides, we can always start...
...grave, she would tell you the same thing." Louis says she walked into her mother's house one day in 1959 to find Connerly, then a freshman at American River Junior College, "sitting down in the kitchen cutting a piece of paste-board and putting it into his shoe. I said, 'What on earth--?' He said, 'The pavement's so hot.' He was covering these big round holes in the soles of his shoes so he could walk to college." His detractors, she says, "are just lyin' on him. It's jealousy and it's hatred...
Among the most widely recognized is Portland's Wieden & Kennedy (1996 billings: $525 million). Its gritty, muscular spots for Nike featuring Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan have helped the athletic-shoe maker uphold its market leadership; other clients include Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Miller Genuine Draft. President Dan Wieden counts acid-dropping Merry Prankster Ken Kesey, author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, as a friend, which might give some hint as to the agency's creative mind...