Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week it was also demonstrated that nuclear plants are vulnerable to sabotage, and that there are people sufficiently demented to attempt such an action. At the Surry plant, near Richmond, Va., someone poured what appeared to be sodium hydroxide, a corrosive chemical used for cleaning and purification, over stored fuel rods in an attempt to damage them. Two days later the plant was the subject of a bomb threat. Although it was not known who undertook these measures, the FBI was investigating...
...difference between the protesting students and university policy makers is not one of words or of intent, but of action. The students have been true to their consciences in speaking out to the appropriate higher-ups. Can university policy makers claim to have used their voices to the fullest extent possible? David E. Keyes, G.S. 1, Division of Applied Sciences
Business groups are also becoming increasingly more effective in indirect lobbying at the grassroots level. The Chamber of Commerce maintains a network of 1200 local Congressional Action Committees which can generate enormous letter-writing and telegram-sending campaigns. It was just such a business-inspired campaigns that helped defeat the Agency for Consumer Protection in the 95th Congress and led Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.) to declare that he had "never seen such extensive lobbying" in his political career...
...widespread misunderstanding of and noncompliance with the grassroots lobbying provision of our tax laws" as well as evidence of lax IRS enforcement. For example, one major insurance company ran an advertisement arguing for limited product liability laws, urging people to "Write a letter to your legislators. Be heard." Such action seems to be grassroots lobbying according to the IRS tax code which prohibits the deduction of expenses "in connection with any attempt to influence the general public...with respect to legislative matters..." In a letter to the subcommittee, however, the company denied conducting grassroots lobbying; it presumably deducted the costs...
...stake, even though their efforts are ineffectual. Students may have an impact on the fate of the Afro-American Department. Their ability to achieve divestiture is much more tenuous, but nonetheless their effort is worthwhile. There has already been much discussion, with no results. The time is ripe for action...