Word: alie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incredible variety of novelty items, most of which you probably didn't know existed. With such an eclectic inventory, this small boutique has featured in magazines such as People, The Boston Globe and The Boston Phoenix. The current owners, Harold and Michael Bengin, also claim that Neil Diamond, Mohammad Ali, Larry Bird and Walter Cronkite are enthusiastic and devoted customers...
...captain Ali Goldkamp finished fourth in the 800-meter, freshman Marna Schutte was fifth in the 400-meter, and senior Jenny Berrien was third in the 100-meter hurdles. The 4x100-meter relay finished third with an excellent time of 47.74 seconds...
...scarred port city of Massawa when she laid down 2,000 birr for a license to open a building-supply store. The villagers of N'Tjinina are finding it as they prepare for the solemn experience of voting in Mali's first local elections. Sarah Galloway Hage-Ali is spreading hope in Ghana, where she purchased the country's sole manufacturer of sanitary napkins in 1994 and launched a feminine-hygiene crusade...
Farsighted enterprise is also the business of women in Ghana, and the prospect of making money brought Sarah Galloway Hage-Ali back from a comfortable life in England. In 1994 Hage-Ali bought Accra-based Sapad Manufacturing Co., Ghana's only maker of sanitary napkins. Changing the company's name to Fay International, she revamped its marketing philosophy into an ambitious campaign to teach Ghana's often infected women to use her hygienic product. Only 15% to 20% of Ghanaian women use sanitary towels; genital ailments are among the most prevalent problems of women patients. In the past two years...
Lucia Quachey, president of the Ghana Association of Women Entrepreneurs, is proud that Hage-Ali is showing the world the other side of the African woman. "Not just the woman with the child on her back, pregnant, wood on her head," she explains, "but the African women who operate computers, who employ people, who generate resources to help in the growth of the national economy." Those are the women Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, Ghana's First Lady, has drawn into the biggest and best-organized women's association in Ghana, the 31st December Women's Movement, named after...