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Dunlop said many of the business representatives were from well-known companies such as Levi-Strauss...
...President Clinton ponders whether to extend China's most-favored-nation trading status, Levi Strauss & Co., the world's largest maker of name-brand apparel, has decided to phase out its Chinese operations because of "pervasive violations" of human rights. The decision abides by the company's investment guidelines, adopted last year. A Chinese Foreign Ministry official downplayed the impact. "At present there are tens of thousands of foreign companies investing in China," he said. "If one or two want to withdraw, please do." Levi's withdrawal will halt production of 5 million pants and shirts a year...
Watching from one of the club's three bars, Mike Levi, a horse rancher from the nearby San Fernando Valley, spits chewing tobacco into a Styrofoam cup and shakes his head. "To me this is fun, but it's not good," he gripes. "Most of the people here are really what country people would call city slickers...
What has true cowboys like Levi perplexed is a craze moving like a prairie fire from country honky-tonks into yuppie nightspots across America: country- line dancing. A descendant of the conga line and the Harlem Hustle, line dancing lets any number join in on a series of dips, kicks and turns, under names like Walkin' Wazi, Boot Scootin' Boogie, Tush Push, Neon Moon and Honky- Tonk Stomp...
Next stop: the Lodge on Brattle St. The Lodge has 501's, 550's and 560's for $42 and $44. But the Levi's are "on sale continuously," says employee L. Paul Robertson, usually running only...