Word: appareled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colorful athletic characters and a large potential for monetary gain. The brilliance dictated that ESPN would create its own Olympics, and thereby be able to manage the competition as well as the television, not having to bother with televising fees, and also take home the profits from concessions, apparel and the like. Indeed, five competitions in skateboarding, BMX biking, aggressive in-line skating and street luging later, scores of medals have been awarded, thousands of fans have been satisfied, hundreds of bones have been broken and millions of dollars have been made...
...protesting human rights abuses by the popular Guess? clothing company in the first Science Center protest of many to follow. Further rallies followed as a PSLM offshoot, Students Against Sweatshops, brought to Harvard the national movement to make universities accountable for the conditions of workers who manufacture their apparel...
Harvard responded to the labor agitators by year's end. The University took steps to initiate oversight of its apparel manufacturers and had formed a committee to determine the feasibility of a living wage...
This year PSLM also spawned another activist group, Students Against Sweatshops, that aimed to force the University to mandate minimum labor standards in the factories where its apparel is manufactured...
...currently in negotiations with the administration. The University agreed to SAS's demand of "full disclosure" of factories that produce Harvard apparel. Together, Harvard and the student activists are haggling over the details of independent monitoring...