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Ohana, who divides her time between Paris and New York City, recently began eyeing beauty and lingerie firms as targets for acquisition because she feels, these days, "people are more interested in well-being than appearances." Plus, many of the luxury groups that built their portfolios in the late '90s are either spinning off or consolidating purchases, or still struggling to achieve successful turnarounds...
...that the company passes on to consumers. The company also credits cost controls--few executives have secretaries, for example. But human-rights groups charge that H&M, among others, keeps prices down by exploiting workers in Third World countries. Like other multinational groups that came under fire in the '90s, the company in 1997 instituted a code of conduct, which all suppliers must sign, and maintains inspectors in countries where its products are made. Still, watchdog groups continue to cite problems, including excessive overtime and lax health-and-safety regulations. Says Carl-Henric Enhorning, director of H&M investor relations...
...wasn't always about marriage. As recently as the early '90s, bringing marriage cases was considered foolish in gay legal circles. At least six court cases arguing that gays should have the right to marry were filed in the 1970s, and all had promptly failed. None were filed in the 1980s, and by the early 1990s only a few gay intellectuals, like Andrew Sullivan, then editor of the New Republic, a center-left magazine of policy and politics based in Washington, were arguing for marriage. In the rest of the gay community, there was division, uncertainty, even among the attorneys...
...late '90s, Daniels was working for the Boston-based Massachusetts Family Institute, an independent conservative group loosely affiliated with Focus on the Family. In Boston, he became friendly with the Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond, a physician turned pastor who had won national plaudits for helping inner-city youths in Boston. Eventually Daniels--with the help of Hammond and several other minority ministers--founded the Alliance for Marriage...
...training, medical coverage for the almost 44 million who have none. Will any of it happen? The working poor don't vote in anything like the numbers of their more affluent neighbors, so even in election years they carry no real weight. But the economic boom of the '90s is behind us, job creation is feeble, and the time limits on welfare are kicking in. Expect those dominoes to start falling faster than ever...