Word: nike
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...block of South Ellis Avenue anchors one of Chicago's scarier neighborhoods. Students who attend the Alexandre Dumas Elementary School located there have had their $100 Nike sneakers stolen off their feet on the way to class in the morning. Drugs are everywhere. "It's a constant battle for the children to get here," says principal Sylvia Peters, who oversees the institution's 682 pupils and 40 teachers...
Democrat David Walters grabbed the open Republican governorship in Oklahoma. Bruce Sundlun wrested the governorship from Republicans in hard-times Rhode Island, outing Edward DiPrete. Former Gov. Bruce King's successful comeback returned New Mexico to the Democratic column, and Joan Finney outsted GOP Gov. nike Hayden in Kansas...
...Chicago, for example, Operation PUSH--Jackson's old civil rights organization--is busy organizing a boycott of Nike shoes because of that company's failure to appoint a Black to its board of directors. Seriously folks, the closest relationship between Nike and the problems of the underclass is the alarming frequency with which young teens are shot and stabbed for a $125 pair of Air Jordans...
...Gear footwear firm believed that a new line of $70 "performance shoes" endorsed by the reclusive star would lift the company out of the financial doldrums and challenge Nike and Reebok. But it's as easy as A-B-C to see that sales have been...
...moves among the L.S.U. students, they talk as if oppressed by blacks "who are getting everything." One says, "Yeah, think of the Nike thing" -- Operation PUSH's boycott of the sportswear company, demanding it hire / blacks at the management level. "That's just extortion...