The organization is assessing shelter, food, clothing and other needs.
In a great disaster like this one, victims are first concerned with their basic needs: food, clothing, shelter, medical care.
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Finnair also donates clothing and furniture to workshops for special needs individuals.
Immediate needs such as food, clothing for the children, gas and household products are given first priority over paying full price for clothing.
If people have severe, immediate material needs -- shelter, food, clothing -- then that is their focus.
Robert Burke, a luxury-goods consultant, thinks Mr. Altuzarra needs to grow sales volume in his clothing collection before branching out.
When their parents die, families disintegrate and meeting basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, and education become extremely hard.
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The challenge for her company, the Oakland, California-based Mannequin Madness, was keeping track of an ever-changing inventory of heads, torsos and limbs, so it could meet the varied needs of a diverse client list of clothing boutiques and department stores.
Heaters, blankets, warm clothing and heating fuel are some of the most pressing needs for the winter months, in addition to food, shelter and mattresses.
Discounted retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corporation are trying to help them meet their kids' needs, as both stores have children's clothing.
While this means that customers who missed the Rochas coat during the trunk show might be able to find it on the site months later, during the normal fall shopping season, it also means that Moda needs to buy, store and sell a large inventory of clothing, just like a department store or Net-a-Porter.
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In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.
Katsuko says she needs nothing, explaining that she can at least return to her house to retrieve clothing.
The needs-based preferences in the New Economic Model are simply old ideas dressed up in new clothing.
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