But economist Jack Strauss says credit conditions threaten the main engine of job growth since two thousand one small businesses.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Levi Strauss partnered with a clothing maker named Jacob Davis, who had invented a process for making rivets for jeans.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Murray Strauss from the University of New Hampshire worked with Mallie Paschall from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.

VOA: special.2009.10.21

Mr.Strauss-Kahn is charged with a sexual attack on a cleaning woman at a New York hotel last Saturday.

VOA: special.2011.05.20

Levi Strauss opened a small dry goods store, first in New York, then in San Francisco, California.

VOA: special.2011.08.12

Jack Strauss at Saint Louis University in Missouri says recent recoveries have been slow to create jobs.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

But this week its chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn,said the world has entered what he called "a great recession."

VOA: special.2009.03.13

But Professor Strauss says a banking crisis is especially hard to recover from, because there is less money to lend to support growth.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

In nineteen twenty-eight the Levi Strauss company registered the word "Levi's" as a trademark for their product.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

In eighteen seventy-three, Strauss and Davis received a patent to officially own this invention.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria, an area that today is part of Germany.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

The history of blue jeans usually begins with a man named Levi Strauss.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Mister Strauss demanded the strongest safety protections in the history of bridge building.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

But I.M.F.chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Friday that Sri Lanka clearly needs help.

VOA: special.2009.05.16