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...suffered three consecutive launch disasters, not counting the failure of a small Nike-Orion rocket on April 25, disclosed by the Associated Press last week. That adds up to the worst string of failures since the early days of the space program. Democratic Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee saw more than bad luck at work. Said he: "There may be a quality-control problem at NASA." Gore revealed that the space agency had slashed 70% of the personnel assigned to monitor the quality of its work between 1970 and 1985. Still, the Titan failure, as well as a Titan explosion...
...paint Marty in Guess jeans and jacket, Polo shirt, and Nike sneakers. Then give him a fiberglass skateboard and watch him catch rides on the backs of passing cars. So far, everything here is pretty straight-forward. No Ewoks, no Yodas...
...Nike Airborne shoe, developed for runners aged eight to twelve, features the same ergonomic principles as professional running footwear. But the distinctive design feature is the use of a special material in the toe tips and heel that reflects automobile lights at night for safety...
...pale, slender young man speaking with reporters in Washington last week could scarcely have appeared more American. He was dressed in blue jeans and Nike sneakers, with a pair of aviator-style sunglasses dangling from the V neck of an open polo shirt, and his longish blond hair was tousled and curly. But the Russian accent was unmistakable, even as he began speaking in colloquial English: "The thing that I want to say is that I don't want to stay here." In another second came the more formal, doubtless well-rehearsed appeal: "I ask the American authorities...
Almost all the new entries into the exercise market seem to lift off like a Saturn booster, find their target, fall back a little and make piles of money for their inventors. Nike of Beaverton, Ore., first hit it big manufacturing running shoes (1982 footwear sales: $580 million). In 1980 the company got into running apparel, and sales of shorts and shirts bearing the company's famous "swoosh" mark have sprinted from $8 million to a projected $115 million this year...