Word: fla
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...rally began outside of the Science Center where HSAS members asked passersby to sign balloons urging Harvard to leave the FLA and improve the monitoring of the factories that produce Harvard apparel...
About 30 students protested Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by companies like Nike and L.L. Bean to monitor working conditions in foreign apparel factories...
...students, members of Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) criticized the FLA because it is run by the companies it is meant to oversee...
...FLA has a lot of problems," said Erik A. Beach '02, an HSAS member. "The FLA is a group run by the companies themselves, and they have a cursory style of monitoring...
...tell Pat Buchanan, but the next U.S. president may have been chosen in Israel. "It's an amazing feeling, that we may be the ones to decide who is the next president of the United States," says David London. The 36-year old registered Republican from Broward County, Fla., has been living in the Jewish state for almost a decade, and his absentee ballot - along with some 100 others dispatched by South Floridian émigrés - may help determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential race...