Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of conflicting studies, incomplete reports and unclear statements has to provoke some skepticism about the possible effectiveness of inquiries into nuclear power. With the nation demanding such huge quantities of energy, the big-money companies advocating the use of reactors, and the President hoisting the nuclear banner, the private individual must feel neglected in the scheme of concerns...
...What I beg you to do is not to take refuge and solace in the notion that this is just a big conspiracy, that you could have all the beef and oil and gasoline you wanted if you could just get rid of some malefactor out there," he said...
...increasing influence of big business in America is having an effect on Congress, the administration, and the general public. Political advertising, political campaign contributions, and lobbying expenditures from the business sector--especially from the largest corporations--are growing at an exponential rate. In 1978, business political action committees raised over $50 million, a fivefold increase from their less than $10 million campaign chest...
...years, they left it up to their public relations directors," deButts explains. "But the government has such a big hand in the affairs of business today, if the CEO doesn't get involved he's in real trouble. If he doesn't give them the facts, no one will...
...bucking the current trend of the CEO's increasing political involvement. The large corporation is no longer content to merely send contributions to members of Congress in the hope that they will remember the generosity of corporate America when antitrust legislation and the like comes up for consideration. Big business now sends its titular heads as emmisaries to Washington. Like the ruler of a foreign nation, the CEO's charisma--derived from his control of billions and billions of dollars--gives him access to the powers-that-be in Washington. In principle, every citizen has equal political right. In practice...