Background The Leslie Fay Companies was a women’s apparel manufacturer established by Fred Pomerantz‚ a former Women’s Army Corps uniform maker during World War II. Despite the “volatile and intensely competitive” (Knapp 34) nature of the industry‚ Leslie Fay grew to have the second largest annual sales compared to any of the other publicly owned women’s apparel manufacturers‚ only behind Liz Claiborne. Fred Pomerantz hired Paul Polishan for a position in the accounting department where Polishan
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Hi‚ Good Morning my name is Taylor Wynn and I chose to research Lisa Leslie. She was born on July 7‚ 1972 in Los Angles. Lisa Leslie was an excellent basketball player in WNBA. She had intended to play basketball just so people could stop asking her if she was a basketball player. Her high school team talked her into trying out for the high school basketball team. Lisa got her high school into state layoff. Then Lisa Leslie begins to get serious about ball. In Lisa Last year of high school
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Leslie Mason‚ a fifty nine year old woman who is a strong and wise independent woman.Leslie is more then my neighbor‚ she is my family. She is a very caring‚ and trustworthy friend and I would do anything for her. One day‚ as I was walking to go see how she was doing‚ she told me that she was going to get hip surgery because she has arthritis and if she does not do something now it will get worse. The doctors told her that she will be getting her hip socket and top of the femur removed and they will
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Gillette and the Men’s Wet-Shaving Market I. BACKGROUND COMPANY HISTORY Gillete Company has assumed the world leader in the men’s and some women’s grooming product technology. Gillette maintains 64 manufacturing facilities in 27 countries‚ and its products are sold in more than 200 countries‚ more than 60 percent sales of which occurring outside the US. Gillette has also adopted the top spots worldwide in writing instruments: Paper Mate‚ Parker‚ and Waterman
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Why did Leslie not leave? It was a perfect crime‚ there was a motivated offender‚ Conor‚ a suitable target‚ Leslie‚ and the absence of a capable guardian‚ which was her parents. Even though Leslie was an adult she did not have the best relationship with her parents‚ her dad was always gone with work and her mother was an alcoholic. Conor abusing Leslie did not start right away‚ it happened slowly as Leslie started trusting and loving him more‚ it seemed like Conor progressively abused her even more
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Page 1 Leslie Silko’s Storyteller Response After reading the passage Storyteller by Leslie Silko‚ I have become more aware of the conceptual terms brought to us while reading and discussing in class. Cultural assimilation plays a huge part in Native American culture and still occurs today within tribes and families. Acculturation‚ similar to cultural assimilation depicts cultural interactions as happening at different levels and directions. In this response‚ I will analyze both of these
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Leslie Knope is the daughter of Marlene Griggs-Knope‚ who is a politician within the school system of Pawnee‚ Indiana. Leslie’s father is an unknown character‚ due to him being deceased throughout the entire series of Parks and Recreation. Leslie works for the parks department in Pawnee‚ Indiana‚ where she is trying to better the city with her multiple projects. Leslie has aspired to hold political office from a young age and wants to be president of the United States. Temperaments are inherited
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booming brining in more than 4 million dollars a year‚ but apparently the company was nearing bankruptcy. Later‚ in 1982‚ Roy decided to sell the company to Leslie Wexner‚ founder and CEO of L Brands‚ who decided to shift gears and direct the store towards women rather than men (Barr‚ Naomi). Leslie Wexner held the first Victoria’s Secret fashion
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Leslie Harris has been an advocate for numerous issues‚ now taking on the title President and CEO of Center of Democracy and Technology. She has advocated for many different organizations‚ primarily focusing on different liberties and freedoms. She has obtained a law degree from Georgetown. In addition to being a president and CEO‚ she has opened an advocacy agency‚ worked at a law firm‚ and worked on capitol hill during early advocacy years. Ms. Harris’s policy goals had to do primarily with women’s
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Leslie A Yerks the author of the book Beans uses language to provide her information about the small coffee shop the L’espresso. She speaks to her audience in a way that makes her writing easy to understand. The main idea of this book is how to run a business through good times or bad. In the book a man named Jack Hartmann owns a successful small coffee shop called the L’espresso. The coffee shop has struggled through many ups and downs over the years. However overall the company succeeds and still
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