1.   How many times can the shoe companies twist the arms of their stars to keep them coming to the Olympics?

2.   Several national organizing committees look at shoe companies and appearance fees as a threat to their authority.

3.   So, come on shoe companies, pull your finger out, deliver the goods you advertise.

4.   The shoe company was accused of using child labour in its factory.

5.   An overseas job will have to come from someone other than New Balance, the Boston-based shoe company whose apparel Khannouchi endorses.

6.   And coming soon, a series of commercials for FILA, the shoe company.

7.   And critics note that Schulte, the executive in charge of Pony, is a former licensing executive who has never run a shoe company.

8.   And if a shoe company, Nike, would like to help promote them, make them bigger than life, then all the better.

9.   And the summer scene is controlled by shoe companies and a number of questionable characters.

10.   And New Balance could face some embarrassment if a runner who breaks the record is sponsored by another shoe company.