Word: levying
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...cause is worthy...but this group [of alumni] tends to be conservative in their views," said James, who represented clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss in a 1997 case concerning human rights issues...
...Internet. The project is expected to take up to 15 years and cost in the neighborhood of $400 million. For all that, it won't be the first: the entire New Testament is already online in MP3 format at www.audiotreasure.com C'EST CHIC, LE GEEK Strange bedfellows Levi Strauss & Co. and Philips Electronics have teamed up to produce a line of high-tech, high-fashion clothes that come with electronic devices sewn right into them. The new threads, which Levi's has dubbed ICD+, were created by Massimo Osti, and will debut next month in Europe. So far the line...
...most fundamental level of demand creation," says Vinod Khosla, a partner at venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins. "Optical-networking companies are like Levi's. They're supplying jeans and tools to miners during the Gold Rush." The amount of data traversing the Web is doubling every three months, and as these merged-media entities offer fatter and better Web services, bandwidth demand should accelerate again...
...aide to a U.S. Senator and later as a publicist for Dan Rather and David Letterman--to gather corporate sponsors such as Viacom, Stride Rite and Oxygen Media to cover the $2.3 million budget for the march. The Bell Campaign, a gun-control group funded by heirs to the Levi's blue-jean fortune, is picking up any shortfall. Dees-Thomases now has a small paid staff and a battalion of volunteers who answer 75 phones and stuff mountains of envelopes. Dees-Thomases was pleased last week when the National Park Service raised its attendance prediction to 150,000, which...
That atmosphere is filled with pages about teenage girls who barely have enough to eat but beg Sacco to bring them back Levi's 501 Blues ("But they must be originals," they cry) and front-line soldiers so desperate to believe in an outside world that they memorize TIME stories about the Paula Jones episode. "How much can you read about victims? After a while you want to read about people as human beings. Then their victimization seems all the more egregious," says Sacco. "I'm interested in the little things, like what people still care about when they...