Word: consumerized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consumer activist Ralph Nader said in Washington that Exxon "should not be allowed to forget" the Alaskan spill and that a boycott was the way to send a message to the oil giant.
Nader joined representatives from several environmental and consumer groups in accusing Exxon of failing to be prepared for the spill and not rapidly responding to the accident.
Instead, the exhibit treats TV as a chapter in American social and economic history: it shows how the medium worked its way into the American home and what changes it wrought there. In the view of curator Larry Bird, who wrote the show's text, television was not just a...
These advanced machines have already started to change the way Americans work and play. The packaging for dozens of name-brand consumer products, from Ivory Snow to Kleenex tissues, is now designed on 3-D computers rather than from mock-ups made of cardboard or clay. Last year the entire...
Long a source of grim jokes and bitter complaints by the Soviet public, the chronic shortage of many consumer goods has only worsened under perestroika. Nonetheless, the Kremlin has been reluctant to dip into its hard-currency reserves (around $40 billion, according to Western estimates) to buy consumer goods from...