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...Fair Indigo clothing is just as stylish as other brands and its quality is just as high?only minus the markup for the do-good aspect. This is possible, he says, because he has eliminated the middle man. Bass relies heavily on worker-owned cooperatives, which slashes layers of overhead, and works directly with the owners of non--co-op factories. Moreover, unlike many clothing brands, Fair Indigo has a minimal advertising budget, counting instead on word of mouth, and it sells directly to consumers instead of through a retailer...
...used: there is no such thing as African time. "There is no store in the world that sells an African watch or an African clock. We all use the same clock," he told me. "And yet Africans use African time as an excuse. We have to be serious." Overhead, a fan chopped through the humidity. "According to my age," said Kwame as I was leaving at the end of that first visit, "I have to speak the facts...
...shouldn't be minimized," says Howard Husock, director of the social entrepreneur program at the Manhattan Institute, a think tank that promotes civic innovation. You also may be able to do your own thing within an existing nonprofit with a related mission. This could speed your launch, reduce overhead and leave open the possibility of a spin-off down the road...
...silence is eerie. After opening the U.S. Army's first combat outpost (COP) in Baghdad last month the men of Charlie Company, 2-12 Cavalry, had gotten used to gunfights raging nearby, the crack of bullets passing overhead, and the explosion of rocket-propelled grenades. After all, this was Ghazaliyah, where Sunni insurgents and Shi'a militiamen have battled each other, the Iraqi army and police, and the Americans for months...
...same color twice in the performance—its hues were constantly changing along with the characters’ moods, in a fantasia of emotions within the forest. The floor was often covered in spots of light, imitating the flood of moonlight flowing through the thick enclosure of trees overhead...