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...math problem for presidents and student athletes alike: Multiply $100 a month times nine months times the 130,000 Division I men and women who juggle sports and academics. The answer is $117 million, or peanuts compared with what major college sports generate in TV revenue, gate receipts and apparel sales, not to mention the untold bounty from endowments and name recognition so dependent on football and basketball. In fact, $117 million is about what a network would pay to televise the oft-discussed college Super Bowl...
...spin language, they call it vision. In the annals of Seventh Avenue, it's known as persistence. Tommy Hilfiger, 45, began in the apparel business peddling jeans, mostly around New York State. In 1984, with backing from Hong Kong tycoon Mohan Murjani, he set up his own shop. Hilfiger led with his chin, with ads in which he compared himself to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The industry laughed--here was a tyro pushing rip-off designs and affecting to be an immortal. But Hilfiger was dogged. He came to recognize the flair in black street style, recombined it with...
...Haute couture (high fashion): Brine and STX apparel. With the success of the men's lacrosse team last season and the high percentage of Long Islanders at Harvard, Brine and STX mesh shorts...
...Haute couture (high fashion): Brine and STX apparel. With the success of the men's lacrosse team last season and the high percentage of Long Islanders at Harvard, Brine and STX mesh shorts...
...apparel industry, like many others, has become global, but nowhere do responsible U.S. clothing manufacturers condone abusive labor practices or the employment of children. Unfortunately, sweatshop conditions do exist in the U.S. and around the world. However, the assertion by Labor Secretary Robert Reich that half of the 22,000 U.S. garment contractors are sweatshops paying less than the minimum wage is absolutely wrong. We are astounded by this irresponsible denunciation of our industry after the efforts we have made to combat sleazy practices. For a U.S. government official to stigmatize an industry that manufactures $50 billion worth of consumer...