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...workers in nearly 40 countries, Li & Fung is the world's largest consumer-products sourcing company, last year managing the manufacture of more than $6 billion worth of toys, clothes, memorabilia and even auto parts for the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch, Advance Auto Parts, Coke and Kohl's. "They are our eyes and ears," says Laura Willensky, vice president of merchandising and design for Gymboree, a San Francisco--based women's- and children's-apparel chain...
...ready-to-wear proved a critical and commercial disappointment in 2001, she made a risky second dive in with great success?she was named Womenswear Designer of the Year by the CFDA in 2005. She has since launched a younger, secondary line, Lavender, and this fall teams up with Kohl's to launch a mass-market minicollection, Simply Vera. She has two fragrances and a line of diamonds and sells housewares, linens and china under her moniker. This list goes on and on. "It has been a labor of love," Wang says of her creations and career, if not always...
...opening statement, Gonzales underlined all the important work the department is still engaged in, highlighting its hunt for sexual predators and its role in the war on terror. But when asked by Senator Herb Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat, if his presence is more detrimental than helpful Gonzales said: "Ultimately, I have to decide is it better for me to leave: I've decided to stay and fix the problem and that's what I'm doing," he said over guffaws from hearing attendees. "We're bringing in good, experienced people. We've changed policies, we've been made aware with...
...gulf, but the U.S. got nothing new from its allies. In a joint statement on a topic new to summit communiques, AIDS, the seven never mentioned any need for expanded testing, despite Reagan's advocacy of it at home. At one of the dinners, Reagan thought he heard Kohl tell him that West Germany would not extradite Mohammed Ali Hamadei to the U.S. for trial. Hamadei, arrested in Frankfurt in January, is suspected of the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and the murder of one of its passengers, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem. Aides later ascertained that Kohl...
...Germany would move to stimulate their domestic economies to ward off a growing threat of world recession and, not incidentally, reduce their towering trade surpluses, which are the counterpart of the U.S. deficit. Japan did announce a stimulative package before the summit, but Britain's Thatcher judged it insufficient. Kohl, harking back to a metaphor from past summits, declared flatly that West Germany "will not be the locomotive" for world economic growth...