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...Sider vs. Timberland...
Sperry's dominance of the booming boat-shoe market is not unchallenged, however. The Timberland Co., a family-owned business that operates out of a former mill in Newmarket, N.H., is aggressively going after the no-skid business...
...Timberland's assault started last year, with an advertising campaign under the headline THE BOAT SHOE THAT'S ABOUT TO BLOW SPERRY TOPSIDER OUT OF THE WATER. The full-page ads claimed that the Sperry shoe had a "painted on" pigment that dries and cracks, was often machine made, used painted metal eyelets that chip, and had a less durable sole...
...patches have been spotted everywhere by overworked law-enforcement officials: between rows of corn on Iowa farms, in narrow strips along streambeds in the Ozarks, in cleared plots on timberland owned by giant companies, even on public lands. Says Ernie Anderson, the Forest Service's director of law enforcement: "We've had reports of marijuana cultivation on practically every one of the 154 national forests and grasslands...
...Sagebrush Rebellion, which favors turning federally managed lands over to the states. Even John Crowell, Reagan's nominee as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in charge of the U.S. Forest Service, used to be counsel to the Louisiana-Pacific Corp., one of the largest buyers of federal timberland in the country...