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...same appears to be true of workers. Robert Karasek, an industrial-engineering professor at Columbia University, has found that people who have little control over their jobs, such as cooks, garment stitchers and assembly-line workers, have higher rates of heart disease than people who can dictate the pace and style of their work. Telephone operators, waiters, cashiers and others whose work makes substantial psychological demands but offers little opportunity for independent decision making are the worst off. This combination of high demands and low control, concludes Karasek, appears to raise one's risk of heart disease by "about...
...Starobin, director of research at the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union: "At some point there will be no apparel industry left in this country. Hundreds of thousands of poorly educated Americans could be cut off from the American dream of being able to improve their living standards." But protectionism aimed at Latin America could be particularly dangerous. Two of the biggest apparel exporters, Mexico and Argentina, owe U.S. banks nearly $35 billion. "If we protect our markets against their goods," says Harvard Economics Professor Richard Cooper, "Latin American countries would have an excuse to repudiate their debts." That could...
Rogers says that the main market for his posh service is bicoastal executives from the entertainment and garment industries who frequently shuttle back and forth between Los Angeles and New York. He believes they will be ready to pay for a flight that is "10% airline and 90% service...
...back business, Avis began in September to give away travel bags and "certificates" that could be accumulated for bigger prizes. Customers who rented five times, for example, could choose a garment bag, a microcassette recorder or a travel clock radio. Within a month, Avis' competitors started entering the fray. National offered watches and stereo radios with headphones. Budget retaliated with a full line of luggage...
...that made Poiret daringly innovative is smothered here in the general ambience. In this great age of squeeze, tie and whalebone, Poiret even made dresses to be worn without corsets, but this idea, and all others, goes unremarked by the exhibitors. They busy themselves instead compiling identifications for each garment that list first the fabrics of the dress, then its owner. The designer or the house that made the dress is relegated to smaller type. That is fitting enough, perhaps, for a show so smitten with what used to be called society. Nostalgia may waft through these corridors like...