Word: sweatshops
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...past 15 years, Kathie Lee Gifford has been more than Regis Philbin's co-host. She's been a damn interesting spectator sport. There was the 1996 sweatshop scandal, of course, and husband Frank Gifford's 1997 tryst with a flight attendant. Also, there were her remarkable skills as a broadcaster; her combustible chemistry with Philbin; their show's unscripted, unpredictable first 20 min.; and the sometimes palpable tension between her and Michael Gelman, executive producer of Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. This week Gifford, 46, leaves it all behind. Who will replace her? It hasn't been decided...
...Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement lead about 40 students on an "anti-sweatshop tour" of the Square. The protestors target the Coop, the Gap and Abercrombie & Fitch...
...Harvard University Police Department officers quickly evict three students protesting Harvard sweatshop policy inside Mass Hall. The group planned to spend four hours handing out leaflets in Mass Hall, but is ejected within minutes. Students and College and University officials gather to discuss the demonstration...
...Rally for Justice," about 350 students protest outside University Hall as Faculty Faculty vote to dismiss D. Drew Doulas, Class of 2000, who pled guilty in the fall to charges of indecent assault and battery. Organized by the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, the Living Wage Campaign and Students Against Sweatshops, the rally also called for a stronger University stance against sweatshop labor, alleging that some apparel manufactured with the Harvard name was produced by companies using sweatshops and for a minimum living wage for Harvard employees...
Just as President Bill Clinton launches a final effort to convince Congress that China deserves permanent normal trade status, there are still plenty of critics who see the communist goliath variously as a strategic threat to the U.S., a vast sweatshop economy swallowing up American jobs and a serial abuser of human rights. Even free-trading multinational corporations experience enormous frustrations trying to do business in China. Countless joint ventures have soured on disagreements between the partners, contract violations and unrealistic expectations of quick profits. A survey last year by management consultants AT Kearney found that 60% of all foreign...