Example sentences for: milliken

How can you use “milliken” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although small, family-owned and operated companies were the norm in traditional textiles, in the early 1950s leaders like Burlington Industries and Milliken undertook vertical integration to handle textile products from fiber to finishing.

  • The institutions and individuals he supports--call them Milliken Men--have helped legitimize a point of view that still commands virtually no support among professional economists, and which was regarded, even a decade ago, as politically beyond the pale.

  • Since everyone who matters presumably knows all about who backs the Milliken Men and why, why does their advice still get taken?

  • More interesting is Milliken's role in supporting institutions that help create an appearance of intellectual legitimacy for his cause.

  • In 1990, Milliken supplied crucial seed money to the Economic Strategy Institute, a think tank headed by former Reagan administration official Clyde Prestowitz; thereafter, he contributed more than 10 percent of ESI's budget.


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