Word: skis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ski business is doing anything but schussing these days. Equipment sales have been logy, in part because of last year's snow drought in Europe. A company would need a lot of nerve to launch a pricey new board right now, but France's Salomon is plunging ahead with a ski that the trade magazine Snow Country called the "most talked-about product to hit the ski market since the plastic boot." A leading manufacturer of ski boots and bindings, Salomon spent six years and $40 million developing its first ski ever. The result is the S9000 Equipe, a superfast...
...industry that has seen the tennis boom bottom out, the ski trend sag and the jogging craze slow down, blading is the bright new hope for future growth in sporting-goods sales. Industry experts believe that blades will rival the $350 million alpine-ski-boot market in the next decade. Says Thomas Doyle, research director for the National Sporting Goods Association: "It's a natural fitness activity, and the price is right." The cost ranges from $100 for basic in-line skates to $330 for pumped-up Racerblades, which have five wheels instead of the usual four...
...thugs in ski masks who drained billions and billions of dollars from the nation's S&Ls. It was hundreds of (mostly) respected citizens in pinstripes who, seeing that deregulation had left the door to the vault wide open, walked in and grabbed what they could -- or at the very least allowed others...
...though, he has been selling assets and trimmed sales to $180 million. If Tapie succeeds in acquiring Adidas, it will put him at the head of one of the world's leading makers of sporting goods. His group's holdings in the past included the company that makes Look ski bindings, and he still retains ownership of Belgium's Donnay tennis rackets, which has fallen on bad times since Bjorn Borg, its main promoter, left the pro circuit...
...also been gathering milk and beer bottles to make petrol bombs for "after." The police came by at 5 p.m. and smashed the bottles with their rifle butts, but the kids still had nearly 1,000 hidden away. "Enough to last the night," as one 17-year-old, a ski mask tucked in his back pocket, cheerfully...