Word: consumeristic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems hard to believe, but a Ralph Nader lieutenant now bears the chief responsibility for U.S. auto safety as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. As if that were not enough, the consumerist who once sued the Agriculture Department over its beef grading and food-stamp rules is now Assistant Agriculture Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, overseeing the same grading of meat and food-stamp programs...
Even before last week's measures. Carter's political advisers were worried lest the new economic line alienate supporters on the President's left. Consumerist leaders, for example, are most unhappy about the prospect that regulation might be relaxed. The anti-inflation, save-the-dollar effort might well stir discontent among low-income voters, who may see it as pro-business (though a recession would hurt business sales and profits). Yet Vice President Walter Mondale reported to a final meeting Tuesday night that he had found deep and growing concern around the country about the dollar's plight, so that...
...endorsement carried particular weight because the federal agency, which only last week announced that it was urging Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. to recall 15 million of its steel-belted 500 radial tires for safety defects, is headed by Joan Claybrook, an avid consumerist who for four years directed Ralph Nader's Congress Watch group in Washington. Said Claybrook: "Our conclusion is that the Omni/Horizon has very good handling characteristics very similar to many other small cars...
...profession." But Illinois Law Professor Thomas D. Morgan, writing in the Harvard Law Review, found that virtually every section of the code serves lawyers first, protecting them from public criticism and increasing their fees. An even harsher verdict was reached by Mark Green, a Washington attorney and associate of Consumerist Ralph Nader: "While piously proclaiming an interest in the public good, the bar's Canons of Ethics have operated as Canons of Profits...
...Consumerist Appeal. One reason is the burgeoning scope of the FDA'S activities. The agency's budget has ballooned from $5 million in 1955 to $279 million this year. Its 7,000 employees, half of them scattered through 17 locations around Washington, are charged with regulating a staggering $200 billion worth of goods yearly. Its powers have grown steadily ever since the agency was founded in 1907 under crusading Pure-Food Advocate Harvey Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture. In 1938, after 107 people died from use of a sulfanilamide preparation that was supposed...