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Palmer tells us that the song Satisfaction "works as a classic rock single," but on another level "asserts that tensions and frustrations are inherent in a capitalist society with consumerist values." He concludes...
...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...