Word: gaylord
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Nearly 60 U.S. Senators co-sponsored a resolution offered by Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson that proposed an annual Earth Week. On a swing through the country, Nelson criticized General Motors Chairman James M. Roche, who had lambasted environmentalists for "irresponsible criticism" and unfairly harassing industry. "Those are strong words," commented Nelson, "coming from the head of a company which, with the other U.S. automakers, was charged by the Government with engaging for 15 years in a conspiracy not to compete in the development of pollution-control devices for the automobile." (The case ended in a consent decree, with the companies...
...plausible scenario along these lines has Laird leaving the re-elected Administration in 1973 to run against Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. Nelson is more vulnerable than William Proxmire, Wisconsin's other Senator. More important, Nelson's seat comes up for grabs in 1974, time enough for Laird to garner sufficient national exposure for a run at the presidency...
...head the Council on Environmental Quality. He proposed an international treaty to control development of the ocean floors, and signed a bill making oil polluters liable for damage. MORE HIGHWAYS. Congress often matched Nixon's ambivalence. The Senate produced ample environmental crusaders, notably Edmund Muskie, Philip Hart and Gaylord Nelson, the instigator of Earth Day. But except for passing Muskie's Clean Air Act, which focuses on auto pollution, and the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act, it was business as usual on Capitol Hill. Even the Highway Trust Fund was routinely extended, its bulging coffers still devoted solely...
Faced with these doubts and problems, the most thoughtful businessmen make the strong case that social programs should be considered not as an expense or inconvenience but as an investment in survival?for the nation, for the capitalist system, and thus for the company. Gaylord Freeman, chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago, warns that, "There is nothing in either the Ten Commandments or the Constitution that guarantees private property. If at any time the majority of our citizens conclude that they would be better off under some other economic system, then our system will be changed." Adds Henry...
...Senator Gaylord Nelson, the Wisconsin Democrat who chaired the subcommittee looking into JOBS, found shortcomings and abuses in the current system. Some badly conceived JOBS programs have had dropout rates of 70%, or even 100%. The program has not reached black teenagers; unemployment among them is more than twice that of white youths. Most of the 25,000 firms that signed up with N.A.B. to support JOBS are big companies, but the employment opportunities among smaller businesses have not really been tapped...