Word: garments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, the seven had it better than most at Huntsville. They had "work capable" status, which means that they could work either as custodians or in the prison's garment factory, unlike most Texas death row inmates, who are "locked down" in their cells 23 hours a day. "Work capable" inmates also can go in and out of their cells whenever they please, and have the opportunity to work in an air-conditioned environment during the sweltering summer months. Texas prison cells have no air-conditioning. That, in itself, is tantamount to a death sentence...
...sense, a consultant in Michigan may devise sound and efficient management strategies which will save thousands of jobs. Guccis help more people than a Birkenstock comforting a dozen battered women. Isn't saving the jobs of several hundred garment workers through streamlining management akin to a Birkenstock ladling soup to 40 homeless clients...
...Garment District is your shopping venueof choice, this Bostonian retro fashionshow is making styles from the '50s and '70snouvelle and hip again. Proceeds go toward AIDScauses. 4 to 6 p.m., 1721 Washington St./ SouthEnd, Boston. $5 in advance, $7 at door...
...child, self-proclaimed shorts guru Brian J. Averell `02 has thought a great deal about the shorts question. "First of all, frankly, my legs don't get cold because I'm running or walking everywhere. Pants don't do much," he says. Averell explains his complex theory on the garment: "I like to use reverse psychology on Mother Nature. People wear pants too early and Mother Nature sees this and makes it colder sooner. The way you get warm days is that some freak students like myself have been wearing shorts and She has seen us and made it warmer...
Sometimes in its zeal to dole out corporate welfare, the Federal Government finds itself working at cross-purposes. In 1997 a government agency issued a $29 million insurance policy to protect a new garment-manufacturing plant built in Turkey by Levi Strauss, the world's largest apparel manufacturer. Meanwhile the U.S. Department of Labor was approving training grants and extended unemployment benefits for 6,400 workers whose jobs had been eliminated at 11 Levi's plants in this country--on the grounds that the layoffs were attributable to cheaper imports...