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- From: sjk@strl.labs.tek.com (Steven King)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: Presidential running shoes (was Re: Clinton mediocre runner?)
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:51:39 GMT
- References: <50758@shamash.cdc.com> <1992Dec22.165506.29327@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> <1992Dec22.190547.9144@tessi.com> <1992Dec22.194045.28520@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.194045.28520@cbnews.cb.att.com>, jmk@cbnews.cb.att.com (joseph.m.knapp) writes:
- |> allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren) writes:
- |> >A.M.T.Bell@daresbury.ac.uk (A.M.T. Bell) writes:
- |> >>
- |> >>Trivia time: from the newspaper photo it looks like he wears ASICS.
- |> >>
- |> >>Do the american voters know this, the american president running in
- |> >>japanese shoes,
- |> >
- |> >Who cares? Besides, what athletic shoe is manufactured domestically anymore
- |> >anyway? =) =)
- |>
- |> I notice my ASICS say 'Made in Korea,' so it looks like Japan uses the
- |> same manufacturing facilities as we do anyway. :-)
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- A friend who is a rep for Reebok tells me that there are factories in
- Korea that have one line assembling Reeboks and next to it a line
- assembling Nikes. It's all in the design (which IS done in the U.S.).
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- I believe that Bart Hershey still makes custom shoes in the U.S. Does
- anyone know if he's still in business?
-
- Perhaps Clinton will wear Adidas in the EC and Asics in the Pacific Rim?
-
- Steven (sjk@strl.labs.tek.com)
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- "Sometimes if you have a cappuccino and then try again it will work OK."
- (Dr. Brian Reid) "Sometimes one cappuccino isn't enough." (Marcus Ranum)
- "A double vanilla latte always works." (Me)
-