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A troublesome island.(Stateless Peoples--Corsica)
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Yvan Colonna, France's most wanted man, was arrested in July 2003. Police found Mr. Colonna hiding in a shepherd's hut in Corsica. He was immediately flown to Paris to join eight other Corsicans on trial for murder.
It is alleged the group conspired to kill Claude Erignac in 1998. Mr. Erignac was the most senior French government official on the island at the time of his murder. His death raised the stakes considerably in the long struggle for independence by some determined Corsicans.
Yvan Colonna, portrayed by his separatist kind of Robin Hood figure, had ...
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Linen's growth a new wrinkle in dress shirts.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record
; ...to find smooth sales growth for one of the more wrinkly fibers -- linen -- for spring '93. Manufacturers are beefing up dress shirt programs in linen and blends such as linen/rayon and linen/cotton. The spring linen surge isn't surprising...
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Linen show in Monte Carlo mixes old, new. (Fifth International Linen Festival, Monte Carlo)
Magazine article from: WWD
; Linen show in Monte Carlo mixes old, new MONTE...dominated the talk of the Fifth International Linen Festival here. Judging from the market...blends and new techniques that are making linen softer, less prone to wrinkling and creasing...
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Linen. (Interior Design Market: Fabric and Wall Covering) (buyers guide)
Magazine article from: Interior Design
; LINEN THOSE OF YOU who can recall their early gradeschool lessons might remember that linen, dating back to 8000 BC, is the oldest...the world. Obtained from the flax plant, linen is called a bast fiber because it is taken...
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Linen's setting the table for spring '95.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record
; NEW YORK -- Linen is the designers' pick of the spring...is to take a lot of the wrinkling out of linen and this is causing major ripples for next...pioneering work done by Vittorio Solbiati's linen blends several years ago and the upscale...
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LINEN'S OUT OF THE CLOSET
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; Linen, once an expensive luxury, has come on...WHEN Marks & Spencer is selling pure Irish linen sheets and duvets for 100 (for the smallest double duvet cover) you realise that linen - for a long time a private fetish - has...
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Linen lift teams lighten the load.(training hospital workers in safer lifting methods)
Newspaper article from: Hospital Employee Health
; Linen lift teams lighten the load Fewer injuries with carts, tugs...musculoskeletal injury. Workers change about 10 tons of soiled linen each day. Custodians would lift linen bags from patient rooms to carts. Laborers would lift bags from...
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Linen regains place on fashion throne
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; Linen didn't start out as a sign of the good...for those with the means to care for it, linen originated about 8000 B.C., when lake...Stone Age encampments uncovered fragments of linen in every stage of manufacture: straw, seeds...
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+(via+Knight-Ridder%2fTribune+Business+News) "Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, Missouri) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)")
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Linen Service Owners Object to Competition from Missouri Prisons.
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, Missouri) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
; ...Georgia Ladlie felt confident that a new linen services contract she was about to secure...when the co-owner of Sunshine Diaper and Linen found out that BJC would be sending its...of a 20-member statewide coalition of linen-service businesses that are upset with...
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Linen takes the limelight at FIT. (Fashion Institute of Technology museum exhibition)
Magazine article from: WWD
; NEW YORK - Linen was a hit last Tuesday night, showing...opening party for the exhibition, entitled "Linen," at The Museum at the Fashion Institute...as they viewed 300 examples of the way linen has served societies from antiquity to...
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Linen is an integral part of Botchman family fabric.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Westchester County Business Journal
; ...born into a dirty business -- the dirty linen business. In seven decades, the Peekskill...become one of the largest family-operated linen businesses in the nation. This once small...company rented 1.5 million pieces of linen in the last week of December alone...
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