Word: substandard
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...know Joe Lieberman through Bill Curry, who sat beside him in the Connecticut state legislature. Curry enlisted Lieberman in his fight against substandard nursing homes, which meant bucking the power of the popular Democratic Governor, Ella Grasso. "Once Joe saw it was the right thing to do, I never had to look over my shoulder to make sure he was still with me," Curry says. He has had only one bone to pick with Lieberman. Soon after Curry lost the '94 Governor's race and joined the Clinton White House, he got a complaining phone call from his mother, feeling...
...provide the public with full and accurate information about the conditions under which apparel is being manufactured, thereby giving consumers the tools they need to make informed decisions about what to buy. Yet, the ultimate end of sweatshop monitoring is to induce changes in the working conditions of substandard factories, and reality dictates that accomplishing this goal requires setting clear standards and may necessitate seeking input from apparel manufactures themselves...
...Dumont, who has lived in Cambridge for the last 20 years, complained rents are being increased despite substandard living conditions...
...would be nonwhite. Seventy would be non-Christian. Six people would control 50% of the world's wealth, and all of them would be citizens of the U.S. Seventy people would be unable to read, more than half would suffer from malnutrition and 80 would live in substandard housing. Only 1 of the 100 would have attended college. Some believe we do not inherit our land from ancestors but borrow it from our children. What we leave them will be determined by an increasing population and the calendar. Our failure to solve the population problem will no longer...
...countries are good news to U.S. labor interests as well, says Baumohl. Immigrant workers, such as the factory employees who recently launched a campaign against conditions in the New York City factory that makes super-trendy Kate Spade handbags, would be far less likely to have to work for substandard wages in the U.S. if salaries in other countries were higher. "Cheap foreign manufacturing makes U.S. labor unions very nervous," says Baumohl. "The labor leaders have a vested interest in seeing better wages around the world, because that eventually translates into a level playing field, with fewer jobs leaving...