Word: garments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much more' in Dollar-a-Pound and its upstairs counterpart, The Garment District, includes everything from giant bins of shoes to underwear with a fried egg applique...
...ostentatiously horrified at the injustices in the world, faces making yet another conciliatory gesture to workers producing her Kathie Lee line of clothing. Tuesday morning, three years after the perky talk-show host and her husband handed out checks to unpaid Kathie Lee employees in a New York garment factory, two women announced they were fired from their jobs in an abusive El Salvadoran sweatshop, allegedly for raising the issue of workers? rights. The two women also allege that attempts to unionize have been met with death threats from lawyers representing the Korean-owned factory. Kathie Lee, of course...
...from one to another. Besides spinning off parts of their businesses, Hewlett-Packard and Rockwell International are carrying on more traditional--and in Rockwell's case, quite drastic--cost-cutting programs in remaining operations. Tommy Hilfiger has not only adjusted quickly to a changed marketing mix but also shifted garment production into Asian plants, where labor costs are lowest...
...resolutely sure it is on the verge of something very big. So confident are Skat and Pseudo.com's 70 other employees of the vast potential of their still undefined and unsellable product that they are willing to be underpaid for 70-hour workweeks in a poorly ventilated former garment factory...
...Hamm in action will tell you that she shares His Airness's furnace-like competitive fire and focus. But she parts company with him when it comes to her approach to fame. Jordan wears his celebrity comfortably, effortlessly, like a scarf thrown over his shoulders. Hamm finds the garment restricting. She has refused cover shoots for magazines because she doesn't want to steal the spotlight from her teammates. After scoring her record-breaking 108th international goal, against Brazil in May, she told a TV reporter to "get a life" when he asked her how she felt...