Word: garment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these practical implications obscure the most important function of the ever-present garment. The Radcliffe T-shirt provides the most useful analogy for a Harvard education: someone throws it at you when you aren't prepared for it, it's one size fits all and you do with it what you will...
...Northern Mariana Islands has had its share of developmental problems with the garment industry. But we have worked to resolve them and enable the much maligned industry to enjoy relative stability over the past several years. For the U.S. Interior Department to threaten a federal takeover of immigration and labor controls because the N.M.I. does not necessarily agree with its warped findings is no reason to believe federalization will be a magic cure for developmental problems. Our people are guaranteed the right to self-government, including the right to "progressive economic self-sufficiency." The U.S. aims to force a Puerto...
...Garment factories, wherever they operate, will always be sweatshops. The bottom line depends on whatever manufacturers and buyers can squeeze out of the market. The immigrants who work in the N.M.I. come here to make money for their families back home. They work, they get paid and they send home money. Not one alien has arrived illegally in the U.S. by way of the N.M.I. Many of the so-called violations are of federal law, yet the U.S. government has very little presence here. We feel that the Federal Government, not the states, has the responsibility to uphold its laws...
...dress made its first appearance in cyberspace. On Jan. 21, Matt Drudge reported on his Internet Drudge Report that Linda Tripp had told investigators Lewinsky allegedly confided she "kept a garment with Clinton's dried semen on it--a garment she allegedly said she would never wash." Drudge declines to characterize his sources. But he says his initial report was "very valid," and he stands by his account that the dress exists. "I know it to be a black cocktail dress," Drudge says...
Terrified of losing its lucrative garment industry, the local government has been lobbying hard in Republican circles to invoke the spirit of free trade to help fight off a federal takeover. In the past year more than 90 members of the House of Representatives, their family members and aides have been flown to Saipan free of charge on inspection visits that include time on the golf courses and coral reefs for which the island is famous. A new Governor, Pedro Tenorio, was inaugurated last week, pledging to reduce the tensions with Washington. "It is in our best interest...