Word: garments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though he has made a lot of money defending wayward Government employees from Richard Nixon on down, Attorney Leonard Garment, currently counsel for Robert McFarlane, passionately denounced those in official Washington who "make a career of grabbing the headlines via the mechanism of witness- stoning under the klieg lights...
...women had cookie-cutter dresses. They were all A-lines, and the women looked like paper dolls cut in a row," says Designer Carolyne Roehm, who ships her minis to the stores considerably longer than those worn by her models. However, she jokes about "putting a note in every garment saying, 'I suggest that you will feel infinitely younger if you shorten this four inches...
...Federal Government will not shoulder the burden alone: INS has turned for help to such groups as the Presiding Bishop's Fund, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, World Relief and the U.S. Catholic Conference. More than 250 organizations have been approved; they are expected to advise and assist 2 million aliens at more than 500 sites around the country. In Brooklyn, N.Y., all 221 Catholic churches have been enlisted. The parishes are handing out kits containing instructions on legalization, an application form and sample letters to landlords, employers, utilities and schools that can be used to verify U.S. residence...
...time the contributions began, it was not illegal for the U.S. to solicit money for the contras. Why, then, did McFarlane take pains to write about the contributions when he was on the point of taking his own life? Says Garment: "Bud wanted to make complete disclosure. He wanted to clear the air." A source who has seen the letters adds that McFarlane "felt he may have created the atmosphere" that prompted North and others to solicit funds for the contras that were at best legally dubious. In any case, the letters make clear McFarlane's despair. Says one source...
...sweatshirt, but lately Designer Norma Kamali has been perspiring about her unwanted association with a different fashion tradition: the sweatshop. Last week the New York State department of labor said it had slapped Kamali with a record $10,000 fine for illegally employing workers to cut and sew garments for her at home. It was the first time a big-name designer had been singled out for breaking the state's 1935 sweatshop law. Kamali stopped using the homeworkers, mostly Hispanic and Asian, when state labor officials began in December to look into complaints from the International Ladies Garment Workers...