Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader has formed an organization for corporate tattletales called the Clearing House for Professional Responsibility. The group will publish a book this summer about whistle blowers. It is hiring a full-time employment counselor to help them find new jobs if they are fired, and even has a special mail drop to receive anonymous tips: P.O. Box 486, Benjamin Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044. In an obvious reference to people like Nader, General Motors' former chairman James M. Roche said in a speech last year: "Some of the enemies of business now encourage an employee...
...sanctuary counsellors admit all their difficulties: barriers of class, race, sex, and the inherent inequality of a counselor-client relationship. Refusing to see their work as social service, or themselves as professionals, they persist in trying to make ideals work in the most trying and disheartening practical situations. And quite often, they fail...
...history, too, the emphasis has been changed to the study of "invisible women" whose achievements have been largely forgotten: Dorothea Dix, whose exposes revolutionized conditions in mental institutions a century ago; Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist who was received by Abraham Lincoln and later appointed "counselor to the freed people"; Maria Mitchell, who discovered a new comet in 1847; Belva Lockwood, activist lawyer and candidate for President on an equal-rights platform in 1884. In analyzing the bias that has ignored such figures, the women's studies courses frequently focus on economic exploitation and other forms...
...Yaacov Herzog, 50, Israeli diplomat and foreign affairs adviser; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. An ordained rabbi and graduate lawyer, Herzog was an intelligence expert in the underground before Israel became independent. Afterward he quietly served a succession of prime ministers. He was David Ben-Gurion's closest counselor during the 1956 Suez-Sinai campaign, and following the war used his cordial relationship with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to help resolve U.S.-Israeli differences. Herzog was director-general of the Premier's office for Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir, service that earned him the sobriquet...
...older and larger no-load funds were formed mostly by investment counselors as a handy way of attracting investors whose accounts were too small to merit individual attention. T. Rowe Price Associates of Baltimore, an investment counselor, owns the biggest no-load fund, T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund, and two other large ones, Rowe Price New Horizon and Rowe Price New Era. The assets of these three funds account for 26% of the entire no-load industry's assets of $5.8 billion. Recently, some of Wall Street's investment houses have also been setting up no-load...