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...Nike shoes are front runners...
...most successful U.S. manufacturer of the fancy new footwear is Blue Ribbon Sports of Beaverton, Ore., a privately held company founded by Running Enthusiasts Phil Knight, 42, and Bill Bowerman, 69. In just eight years, Blue Ribbon Sports and their Nike (rhymes with psyche) shoes have gone from a standing start to sales of $260 million, and this year they could climb to $360 million or more. Nike is now aiming to overtake Adidas, the West German sports giant. Nike already has 136 models, for every sport from running and tennis to volleyball and wrestling. This year it plans...
...South Florida, more than a dozen smaller shelters were opened at sites ranging from two former Nike missile bases to the inside corridors of Miami's Orange Bowl. The largest processing center was at Tamiami Park, on the outskirts of Miami, where 1,500 refugees a day plodded through a seven-step process to be cleared for release to join relatives who had fled Cuba years ago. All the while, more kept landing at Key West, to be bused from dockside to Key West Naval Air Station. There up to 5,000 waited, both inside and on surrounding concrete...
...lines, shouting "Carter! Car-ter!" and "Niech zyje [long life]!" It was one of the few occasions when he had firsthand contact with ordinary Poles, many of whom regard him as a symbol of freedom because of his support for human rights. Later, when he placed flowers at the Nike (Greek for victory) monument to the Poles who died in a 1944 uprising against the Nazis and at the memorial to the Jews massacred in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, police kept away all but a handful of official observers. The Polish government had tried to persuade Carter...
...example, a mid-fifth century silver-gilt plaque of Nike, the Victory Goddess, from the Golyamata mound at Douvanli, is totally different in spirit from the famous Grecian golden Nike earring on permanent display in the museum. The Thracian piece is, first of all, virtually two dimensional by its nature, whereas the Greek version is a sculpture in miniature. Yet the Thracian Nike seems solid, almost archaic when compared with the delicacy and grace of the Athena Nike...