Word: garments
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...Though Li has rarely returned to her homeland since her departure a decade ago, the best stories in this volume, written in her flawlessly pure and limpid prose, fully capture China's wrenching social changes. In "Extra," Granny Lin finds she has been "honorably retired" from her state-owned garment factory?which means the plant has gone bankrupt and Lin won't be getting her pension. She's lucky enough to find a new job as a maid at one of the posh new private schools sprouting outside Beijing, but it's not long before Lin discovers...
...years. It’s just a part of the culture in Cambridge.” Ann Russell, 17, is one of those faithful customers. Although her home is in Cape Cod, roughly 100 miles away, Russell makes the trip to Cambridge nearly every weekend to shop at the Garment District for “all the cheap vintage stuff,” she said. Even as she dug through the racks of vintage, used, and name-brand clothes, she was already wearing a cotton, 70s-era housedress that she bought from the Garment District just the weekend before. Unlike...
...news article, "Historic Garment District Saved," mischaracterized the terms of a real estate deal between a Kendall Square vintage-clothing store, the Garment District, and a local affordable housing and social services provider, CASCAP...
...article said that the deal was "extremely profitable" for the Garment District's president, Christopher Cassell, and real estate developer Tani Halperin...
While Halperin said in a phone interview last week that "there is no doubt that this is a profitable deal" for the Garment District, upon further investigation by The Crimson, the Feb. 1 article's unambiguous assertion that the deal was "extremely profitable" for Cassell cannot be verified...