Word: soles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...styling and trendy materials like black patent leather, the shoes have increased in sales 30% during each of the past three years. This year Birkenstock Footprint Sandals expects a 40% increase, to about 1.4 million pairs. They are still made with layers of suede, jute and cork, with the sole contoured to the natural shape of the foot and a shock-absorbent foot bed. Prices range from $50 to $130 for adult sizes...
...rebels. "I cried and cried when I first got here," she says. Now she works at a child-care center in Ashdod and refuses to teach her three children her native language. "I don't want to even think about Ethiopia," she says. "There was too much suffering." Her sole indulgence in the past is listening to Ethiopian music on her tape player, which offers the only safe passage back to the thatched hut of her childhood...
...this for a space station that does . . . nothing. In the interest of saving money, NASA planners stripped the station of its varied and often contradictory functions. No longer was it to be a truck stop or observation platform or metallurgical factory. The sole stated scientific rationale left for the station was to conduct biological research on weightlessness, but the plans originally omitted a centrifuge, the most important gadget needed to do that work. The National Academy of Sciences concluded that the space station had no scientific use at all. Which left as the main purpose of the station what cynics...
...office's claim that it gives tips to children of alumni and recruited athletes only when all other factors are equal. The Department of Education found that accepted students in those categories scored significnatly lower on average in every category used by the College to judge applicants, with the sole exception of the athletic rating...
...that talented athletes--just like fine musicians--have a place at Harvard. But Education Department report clearly refuted his claim that recruited athletes are treated like musicians. The fact that athletes scored significantly lower on every single category used to judge applicants over a ten-year period with the sole exception of athletic rating, and the very existence of that rating, makes it clear that football players are given a hard shove into Harvard that violinists can only dream of receiving...