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Last week, the Levi Strauss company announced plans to lay off 1,000 employees. Normally, upon hearing such news, we shrug our shoulders and feel at most a moment of fleeting pity. But only a moment. After all, those workers must be half a world away, working in a exotic land for a few dollars a day. But the folks Levi's intends to eliminate are not toiling away in some southeast Asian sweatshop. They're Americans, like us. Now our moment of fleeting pity escalates into a moment of fleeting concern. Americans they may be, we comfort ourselves...
...fair, we should remember that the Levi Strauss company was recently presented with an award for its social responsibility and has long been considered a pretty good place to work. But these mitigating facts only serve to underline a deeper problem. If a 'nice' company like Levi's is acting so unfortunately, then we can only imagine the horrors committed by the more callous and blameworthy members of corporate America. I firmly believe that things are going to change radically in the future. They'll change out of necessity, and they'll change because people are tired of corporations always...
Shawmut hired Maurer & Sforza in May 1995 to do work on the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in the Strauss Conservation Center of the Fogg Museum, according to Shawmut's lawyers...
Harvard is the defendant in a suit pertaining to a 1995 renovation on the Strauss Conservation Center of the Fogg Museum...
...Mexico, Domingo is conservative and internationalist in his outlook, and his agenda for the Washington Opera reflects his more conventional programming taste. In addition to the standard Italian and French fare the company has traditionally presented, he plans a foray into the German repertoire with new productions of Richard Strauss's operas as well as Wagner's Ring cycle, the calling card of major opera companies worldwide. "We chose him because he is a consummate musician," says Patricia L. Mossel, the company's executive director. "He knows voices. He is a very fine pianist. He knows the singers firsthand, having...