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...heart attack, Ferraro, then eight, was devastated. She was gravely ill with anemia for a year. Facing reduced circumstances, her mother Antonetta moved Geraldine and her brother Carl (now with New York City's human resources administration) to the South Bronx and took a job in the garment district crocheting beads on dresses. Urged on by her mother, Ferraro won successive scholarships to Marymount School in Tarrytown, N.Y., and Marymount College in Manhattan. While working as a second-and fourth-grade teacher in a Queens public school, she took night law classes at Fordham University, with financial help from...
Meese's attorney, E. Robert Wallach, said that "explicitly, Meese didn't handle fund raising, he didn't handle disbursements." Another member of his legal team, Leonard Garment, promised that if Prosecutor Stein decides to probe Meese's role at the foundation, "we are prepared to answer all of his questions...
...immigration case was brought by four Los Angeles-area garment-factory workers who were questioned but not arrested in INS raids in 1977. By a 7-to-2 vote, the court upheld the constitutionality of the INS interviews. Writing for the majority, William Rehnquist noted that individuals who are not under arrest have the right to ignore and walk away from police who want to question them. That being so, Rehnquist continued, the factory workers "could have had no reasonable fear that they would be detained" if they refused to answer the questions of the INS agents or chose...
Budgets may be a matter of greater moment to smaller operations like Maxfield's than to Bloomingdale's or Bergdorf's. But when a buyer prices a garment ($48 for a Comme des Garçons wool T shirt, $523 for one of the shearling coats Montana designs for Complice) it is usually presented at "first cost." The designer's fee, as well as the tab for actually making the garment, and the designer's sales expenses and promotion budget are often included. What a U.S. store pays, however, can be as much...
...society is even more fallacious. While Newsweek on Campus draws attention to "industrious" and "ambitious" Asians on American campuses, the article ignores the plight of the Chinese working in Chinatown sweatshops. While Asians are over-represented in a number of technical fields, they are also over-represented in the garment worker occupation, as well as the restaurant worker category. It is true that Asian incomes exceed the national average, yet Asians live in Pacific, Eastern, and metropolitan areas with costs of living that far exceed the national average. When compared to the average income within their metropolitan areas, Asian incomes...