1.   Besides the low pay, jeans makers drain endless water from a near-desert.

2.   Consider Levi Strauss, the junk-rated jeans maker whose business has suffered in recent years as it lost market share.

3.   In a separate challenge to the big jeans makers, private-label brands for big retailers have been gobbling up a tiny but growing chunk of the market.

4.   Inc., the well-known jeans maker, which Unite is pressuring to use unionized factories only.

5.   Of the Big Three jeans makers, Levi Strauss seems to be landing the most effective counterpunches.

6.   The jeans maker is overhauling its packaging and labeling, so it seemed like a good time to look for new talent, Goldstein said.

7.   The minimalist billboards and posters with a white background juxtapose the red tab with coy references to competing jeans makers.

8.   The legendary jeans makers had no quick answer from a recent enquiry to their e-mail address.

9.   The smaller jeans makers popping up in Los Angeles and elsewhere tend to have a closer handle than the established giants on the likes and dislikes of adolescent consumers.

10.   At Levi Strauss, analysts said he will be charged to do just the opposite as the jeans maker aggressively targets the youth market.