Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movement's quick rise, the leaders say, is the use of e-mail, which has enabled them to get the word out to students across the country. "There's no way hundreds of students would have marched up to a university administration building just because some human-rights group asked them to," says Tico Almeida, a Duke senior who led the campus rally back in January. "Students have grasped this issue and made it theirs...
...they aren't letting go. In the past two weeks 33 universities have signed on to a plan designed by the Fair Labor Association, a consortium of human-rights groups and manufacturers like Nike and Reebok, to come up with a uniform code of conduct for the apparel industry. Though the agreement has won the backing of the White House, a core group of student leaders has joined UNITE in opposing it as inadequate...
NAME: OutKast, the "OutKlassed" OCCUPATION: Upstart rappers AGES: 23 (Dre); 24 (Boi) BEST PUNCH: The duo, Dre and Big Boi, say the song (sample lyrics: "Ah ha, hush that fuss/ Everybody move to the back of the bus") is an homage to Parks, and the group's record company is standing by its "right to creative expression...
Last fall, after financial constraints forced Isaac Mizrahi to discontinue his label and Todd Oldham to shut down his high-end line, discussion in the Manhattan fashion world--a group for whom a big-think question is whether or not model Esther Canadas' lips are bigger than Barbara Hershey's in Beaches--suddenly turned weighty. From where, the fashion community gravely wondered, were its future leaders going to come? In addition to the departures of Mizrahi and Oldham, designers Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors were now splitting their time between their own collections and those of the French houses Louis...
...years, the rap on American managers has been that they're short-term thinkers, cowed by Wall Street--the nerve!--to make the quarterly number or see their stock price sacrificed to the earnings gods. What this country really needed, said the pundits and business professors, was a group of CEOs who had the guts to go long. Now, at (long) last, a new generation of managers, like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Tim Koogle of Yahoo, Steve Case of America Online and Tom Jermoluk from @Home, has emerged to do exactly that, through aggressive acquisition strategies, massive infrastructure spending...