Word: garments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the incidents which gave rise to concern over leaks." This could block more revelations about the White House "plumbers." But were the guidelines released because national security was really involved or because investigation of the activities could lead directly to the President? Nixon also reasserted, through Garment, earlier restrictions against officials' divulging any conversations with the President on grounds of Executive privilege...
This week, Bad Cob is in Washington, 1600 miles away from the reservation. He was one of three Indians chosen to meet with Leonard Garment, a Presidential assistant, to set up a commission that will study Oglala treaty rights...
...long ago, young hot-shots in the garment industry would swagger to the top with order pads in one hand and samples of the latest fashions in the other. But nowadays life along Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, main drag of the U.S. dressmaking industry, is a bit more subdued. Three years after the ill-starred "midi" provoked a customer rebellion that unstitched profits in firm after firm, many women are still shying away from dresses and skirts of any sort, and playing it safe fashionwise by choosing pantsuits. Result: a New York dressmaking disaster...
...York City has lost more than 17,000 jobs (26% of its total dressmaking labor force), most not because of automation but because companies have gone out of business, while new ones opened elsewhere. High labor costs have been one reason. Last month the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union won a 20% hike over the next three years for its 60,000 New York area members. A principal beneficiary of New York's decline has been Miami, where spacious plants rent for half the going cost of New York lofts, and nonunion Cuban immigrant labor is available...
...when the industry will vanish from New York altogether. He may be too pessimistic, but Saul Nimowitz, director of New York City's Office of Apparel Industry Planning and Development, asserts: 'The middle-sized Manhattan dressmaker has been the backbone of the city's $7 billion garment industry, and he is the one who cannot survive today. The big conglomerates have enough money to move out of town, and the one-sewing-machine people can operate in a closet. In between, forget...